From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:30:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83y1t5pcvy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v8o94wb4.fsf@yahoo.com> <86h6ztr623.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsfd4k2s.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21765"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 19:14:23 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1on11r-0005TA-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:14:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxY3-0005hX-D3; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxY0-0005hI-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxY0-00059k-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:31:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=hkTxHHTCiCTndNaAXhWbW8L/xmrHVUNiZrAE4Ql0Gow=; b=iyhMGePGIb25 ihBZL053ASaoRGUqz8ktxpTl3a1WTbx7hUJ7/MVxn9ZtEPYrfacZMdm9FpjUU6qaXQyM0rK2luIYN /t+RRiCqiAkYKaYZk4gkUYnUWNAnbradwXfkKJN+O3EQPaaN2IjlwQR+cKrW0wBE3Qh6aVXMlnYV0 opGUSF+cahDvwKzK2MP5qrj4FIAgLTZhvCG4F2FzfB64WQ16cqeZiQXKI3R0iouwx6em+Vn3F+fQv oG84JaBOH6k6duvZsVmwO2smy8n1PBW6+Zs09UR59jez7tgmdix3k5f1M1gXdY0XYSEB6BRZoXHk5 7THcaKx5KDxzVXZezGYlFw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxXd-0002hm-Lp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:31:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fsfd4k2s.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:00:59 +0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140330 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Peter Wyatt , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:00:59 +0800 > > Arash Esbati writes: > > > I think there is another volunteer who is providing 32-bit builds. > > > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ > > Since Eli's making them, why aren't they on ftp.gnu.org? Wouldn't it be > convenient to just put them there? Because I cannot be bothered, and because all my other ports are on that site, so people can download the dependency libraries they want from the same place. > > A 32-bit Windows build of GNU Emacs version 28.2. The MS-Windows > > binaries of Emacs available from the GNU FTP site include only a > > 64-bit build, and cannot run on Windows before Windows 7. This > > 32-bit build runs on Windows XP and later, and is supposed to be > > able to run on Windows 9X as well (but was not actually tested > > there). > > Though YMMV running this on Windows 9x if it was not built with unexec > dumping. This port was built with pdumper, not unexec. We need to finish debugging the problems you found with pdumper on Windows 9X some day. (Thus the caveat in the README.)