From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Stone Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I get latest CVS and compile Emacs? Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:02:07 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071457796 314 80.91.224.253 (15 Dec 2003 03:09:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 04:09:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVj7H-0007oN-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:09:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVk0X-0002EV-MV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVk07-00026W-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVjzY-0000oj-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVjzF-00009f-8R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVj1l-00042X-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:04:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVj1k-00042P-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:04:08 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVj1k-0008Qr-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:04:08 +0100 Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15255 Harald Maier wrote: > Martin Stone Davis writes: > > >>I would like to get the latest CVS of emacs and compile it for Windows >>XP. I read http://savannah.gnu.org/statement.html, but I don't know >>what I'm supposed to do. >> >>My (lack of) experience: I am an almost-total newbie to CVS. I have >>some experience using Eclipse to access and compile a CVS Java >>project. I have emacs 21.3.1 loaded and I also have MS Visual Studio >>6.0 (not loaded). > > > You need a cvs client program. I am using the cvs program from the > cygwin.com port but I think you should also be able with the eclipse > program. Important is the CVSROOT and that you are using the SSH. In > the following command the CVSROOT is > > anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvs-latest/emacs > > ,---- > | $ export CVS_RSH=ssh > | $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvs-latest/emacs co emacs > `---- I tried this and I get the following message: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot start server via rsh: No such file or directory I tried both a command-line version in windows (where I used set CVS_RSH=ssh) and also I tried using WinCVS. Both gave me the same result. What am I doing wrong? > > The problem with cvs-latest is that the two file 'emacs/src/regex.h' > and 'emacs/src/regex.c' are missing. You can check out theese files > from the cvs-2003-09-16 cvs tree or you can do first a checkout of > cvs-2003-09-16 and afterwards cvs-latest. This should work, but I have > not tried it. > > As a second step you should look into the file emacs/nt/INSTALL. This > file describes the following steps: > > ,---- > | $ cd emacs/nt > | $ ./configure.bat --with-mscv > | $ nmake bootstrap > `---- > > I am not sure which CL version you are using. If you are using MSVC > 7.0 (CL 13) then you should edit the file nmake.defs in emacs/nt and > remove the occurences of '-debugtype:both'. > > Harald -Martin