Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/10/18/15:33:41
mjo AT mrao DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Martin Oldfield) wrote:
> Recent versions of emacs (> 19.22) claim that they can be build for DOS
> using djgpp and a bunch of GNU fileutils. Has anyone managed to do this
> successfully and if so which versions of the tools did they use ?
I installed emacs 19.26 under DOS, using DJGPP 1.12m1. The installation
was pretty easy, and the program seems to work OK. (I'm not a heavy
emacs user, so I haven't really hammered on it.)
I used djtarx to extract the files onto my DOS machine. Here is a
djtarx "change file" that works (copy it into a file, and give the
file's name to djtarx with the "-n" switch):
emacs-19.26/etc/ms-kermit-7bit emacs-19.26/etc/msk7bit
emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwlib-XolmbP.h emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwXolmbp.h
emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwlib-Xolmb.h emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwXolmb.h
emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwlib-Xolmb.c emacs-19.26/lwlib/lwXolmb.c
emacs-19.26/lib-src/Makefile.in.in emacs-19.26/lib-src/Makefile.in-
emacs-19.26/src/.dbxinit emacs-19.26/src/dbxinit
emacs-19.26/src/.gdbinit emacs-19.26/src/gdbinit
emacs-19.26/src/paths.h.in emacs-19.26/src/paths.h-i
emacs-19.26/src/config.h.in emacs-19.26/src/config.h-i
emacs-19.26/src/Makefile.in.in emacs-19.26/src/Makefile.in-
emacs-19.26/src/s/sunos4-1.h emacs-19.26/src/s/sunos41.h
emacs-19.26/src/s/sunos4-1-3.h emacs-19.26/src/s/sunos413.h
emacs-19.26/src/s/dgux5-4r3.h emacs-19.26/src/s/dgux5-43.h
emacs-19.26/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE emacs-19.26/getting
Other than that, I just followed the instructions in the "MSDOG" section
of the installation file (INSTALL or README or whatever it is). You
should also have a look at "etc/MSDOS" in the emacs distribution.
About the fileutils that were needed: Not much, I think. I didn't
really notice. I have the MKS toolkit installed, so if the installation
required sed or awk or anything like that, it would have found the MKS
versions. But I don't think anything more complicated than "mv", "cp",
and "rm" was used. (It's been a while since I did this.) I'd recommend
just trying it. You'll find out quickly enough which utilities you
need ;-).
To ward off the inevitable slew of questions asking, "Where can I FTP
the MKS toolkit, and what is it, anyway?" ... It's a commercial package
of Unix-like utilities, available from Mortice-Kern Systems.
John Polstra jdp AT polstra DOT com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Phone (206) 932-6482
Seattle, Washington USA Fax (206) 935-1262
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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