From: rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org (Parker, Ron) Subject: RE: Emacs 20.2 port in the works 20 Mar 1998 21:28:00 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Kinnucan , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".