From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Siart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:05:32 +0100 Organization: Technische =?iso-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_M=FCnchen?= Message-ID: <84a7z5guib.fsf@siart.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511957438 16776 195.159.176.226 (29 Nov 2017 12:10:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:10:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 13:10:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eK1CA-0003g5-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eK1CD-0001m7-Mv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:10:33 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.5.202 with SMTP id 193mr469353wmf.22.1511957133414; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 04:05:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!b72no730259wmd.0!news-out.google.com!l202ni7344wmd.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news-peer.in.tum.de!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pegasus.net.hft.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Original-X-Trace: news.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 1511957133 24812 129.187.140.100 (29 Nov 2017 12:05:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@in.tum.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LNqGVxSe1hGFLXbrLMugJUoIhcE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221020 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115131 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Emacs continues to support XP, I use it that way all the time. I'm > guessing that you are using precompiled binaries from some site, and > those binaries were linked against system libraries which require > functions not present in the C runtime on XP. (If these are official > GNU binaries, then it's unfortunate we provide such binaries. In that > case, please file a bug report using report-emacs-bug.) The latest Emacs 27 snapshot build from alpha.gnu.org works again on Windows XP. Thanks for restoring this! It helps a lot. -- Uwe