From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms? Date: 16 Dec 2003 20:33:35 +0000 Organization: freedom2surf Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3fddcae6@usenet.ugs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071607754 11383 80.91.224.253 (16 Dec 2003 20:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 21:49:10 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 1AWM7u-00031Q-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:49:10 +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 1AWN3Q-0004aO-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:48:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!38.119.100.83.MISMATCH!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.137.77.250 Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1071606826 29114 195.137.77.250 (16 Dec 2003 20:33:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:33:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[, }O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119394 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:15333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15333 "John Dallman [311000]" writes: > I'd like to get Emacs running on the two current 64-bit Windows platforms: > Itanium and AMD64. Both are supposed to be able to run x86 Windows > programs, but our old-faithful Emacs 19.34.6 (i386-*-nt4.0) exits silently > when run on them, without displaying any error messages or anything else. > In any case, performance will be better when they're running as native > code. > > Has anyone done this before? > > While I'm reasonably used to using Emacs, this will be my first attempt to > build or install it - or anything else with GNU autoconfig - and I'm not > sure > where to start, apart from downloading the tarball. You might start by downloading 21.3, or when CVS is restored to full functionality, checking out the current CVS, which has 7 years worth of bugfixes and other changes compared to 19.34. Some of those changes are 64 bit implementations for other platforms. You might also want to subscribe to emacs-devel@gnu.org (see http://mail.gnu.org) where development discussions tend to happen. The Windows port of Emacs does not use autoconf in its build process, unless you want to go the Cygwin route (though 64 bit support for Cygwin would be a prerequisite).