Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/20/21:28:00
I am aware of:
* Geoff Voelker's NTEmacs port to Win32
* Eli Zaretskii's djgpp port to MSDOS and Windows
* Hisashi Miyashita's MULE for Win32
* XEmacs Win32 porting project
I have heard expressed on this list many repeated problems and
difficulties with using NTEmacs in a complete cygwin32 environment.
My purpose in porting emacs, is manifold. First off, I was unaware of
the XEmacs Win32 effort. It sounds promising but looks to be a longer
term solution. I want an emacs that can be run in a console window or in
X-Windows. This is due to my using these tools remotely from home on a
server at work. I want to supply a set of patches to the maintainers of
GNU Emacs, so that cygwin32 will compile "out-of-the-box" and the newest
version will always be available. Also, I desired to have the smallest
set of patches possible to enable this so that there would be very few
cygwin32 dependencies in the GNU source and therefore a very small
chance of newer versions not working with cygwin32.
My first compile of emacs 20.2 was accomplished by creating an
src/s/cygwin32.h file and updating configure.in in the top level
directory. Since then the editor has essentially worked "as expected".
My previous message stated that I did not have subprocess support. That
was inaccurate. I had not tested the subprocess support. After testing
it, it is clean and works well. With one minor change to cygwin32.h I
corrected the filename problem that I mentioned. I have determined that
I will not link it with the lesstif libraries due to runtime errors
emitted by using the menus. The only thing I have left to do is to
perfect the dumping of the executable. For the uninitiated, this greatly
speeds the initial loading time of the application. I am very close to
having this completed and have put fewer than 8 hours into my porting
effort.
I still welcome additional input.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Kinnucan [SMTP:paulk AT mathworks DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 5:41 AM
>To: Parker, Ron
>Subject: Re: Emacs 20.2 port in the works
>
>At 12:51 PM 3/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>I am porting the newest version of Emacs, currently 20.2, to the
>>gnu-win32 environment. Its probably asking for trouble by anouncing this
>>before it is completed. But, I wanted to spare anyone from duplicating
>>my efforts and to be certain I am not duplicating someone else's work.
>>
>
>Hi Ron,
>
>Just wanted to check and make sure you are aware of NT/Emacs?
>
>If so, I'm curious as to what a cygwin port would offer that
>NT/Emacs does not.
>
>- Paul
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