Re: Building with image support

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Eric Lilja wrote:
>> I see, do you know if it has any effect on windows? When I'm using
>> GNU/Linux, I use the binary supplied with my distribution. I don't
>> know how to build it on that platform yet. I will most likely try to
>> learn that if I continue to use the cvs trunk version.
> 
> 
> The visual effect of using PNG images is the same on Windows as other
> platforms, but on Windows you would need to customize the toolbar to use
> your choice of PNG icons (not included with Emacs), whereas on GNU/Linux
> using a GTK build of Emacs, you will automatically get the appropriate
> PNG icons from the GTK theme you have selected.

Thanks for your replies everyone. Since I don't plan on using any custom 
toolbar on Windows, I think I will build with xpm support only. When I 
learn how to build on GNU/Linux, I shall build with png support as well.

> 
> Building on GNU/Linux is not much different than on Windows, except all
> the commands are performed from the top level directory instead of the
> nt subdirectory.