From: andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (Andy Piper) Subject: RE: Emacs 20.2 port in the works 25 Mar 1998 01:19:43 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980321220216.009a87f0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailhost> References: andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (Andy Piper) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Parker, Ron" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com XEmacs has been ported (by me) to cygwin32. You may in particular be interested in the cygwin unexec support I have done. cheers andy At 11:07 AM 3/18/98 -0600, you wrote: >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". > > - 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".