From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "David M. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478189198 29448 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2016 16:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:00:42 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 17:06:30 2016 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 1c2KWW-0002MC-19 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:05:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2KWY-0002iW-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:05:54 -0400 X-Received: by 10.107.137.42 with SMTP id l42mr3136100iod.20.1478188842508; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:00:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.60.235 with SMTP id t40mr1101069otf.0.1478188842460; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!n6no578282qtd.0!news-out.google.com!z32ni1274qtc.1!nntp.google.com!n6no578277qtd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.205.147.147; posting-account=e1-ZBwoAAAAOARP3tBls4m5WGd6LXeVr Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.205.147.147 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219004 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:111662 Archived-At: On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 11:32:42 AM UTC-4, David M. Miller wrote: > When I went to download 25.1 for windows I saw two packages on the main GNU ftp server: > > emacs-25.1-i686-w64-mingw32.zip > - AND - > emacs-25.1-x86_64-w64-mingw32.zip > > but no explanation of the difference between them in the README file. > > Also, there seems to be a separate package of "deps" for each: > > emacs-25-i686-deps.zip > - AND - > emacs-25-x86_64-deps.zip > > the need for which is also not explained anywhere (dependencies? dependencies for what?). > > Does anyone know what the difference between the i686 and x86_64 packages are? > Does anyone know what the "deps" packages are for? > > Thanks, > David After examining both main emacs packages, I think I figured out the obscure naming conventions: 'i686' refers to the 32-bit version, while 'x86_64' refers to the 64-bit version. So this answers my first question. I have no intention of doing so, but I still wonder whether the "deps" package is intended for *BUILDING* emacs, or if it provides runtime binary support for some of the more obscure elisp facilities.