From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:17:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335bdqs2v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8o94wb4.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:36:47 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:36:47 +0800
>
> Peter Wyatt <peterwyatt59@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > The FAQ says that emacs 28.2 will run on all versions of Windows from
> > 98 onwards, including XP. But when I try to run it on my Windows XP
> > 32 bit system I get the "not a valid Win32 application" error, both
> > after downloading and extracting the emacs-28.2.zip file, and then
> > deleting the extracted folder and downloading and running the
> > installer.
>
> You will have to build the 32-bit version of yourself with MinGW; see
> nt/INSTALL. Emacs continues to support Windows 9x onwards, but the
> volunteer who used to provide 32-bit prebuilts has ceased to do so.
There's a new one, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-24 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-23 2:48 emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit Peter Wyatt
2022-10-24 5:36 ` Po Lu
2022-10-24 8:15 ` Arash Esbati
2022-10-24 10:00 ` Po Lu
2022-10-24 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-24 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8335bdqs2v.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.