1 Building and Installing Emacs on MS-Windows
2 using the MSYS and MinGW tools
4 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
7 The MSYS/MinGW build described here is supported on versions of
8 Windows starting with Windows XP and newer. Building on Windows 2000
9 and Windows 9X is not supported (but the Emacs binary produced by this
10 build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems).
12 Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin, use the
13 normal installation instructions, ../INSTALL.
15 * For the brave (a.k.a. "impatient"):
17 For those who have a working MSYS/MinGW development environment and
18 are comfortable with running Posix configure scripts, here are the
19 concise instructions for configuring and building the native Windows
20 binary of Emacs with these tools:
22 0. Start the MSYS Bash window. Everything else below is done from
23 that window's Bash prompt.
25 0a. If you are building from the development trunk (as opposed to a
26 release tarball), produce the configure script, by typing from
27 the top-level Emacs source directory:
31 1. If you want to build Emacs outside of the source tree
32 (recommended), create the build directory and chdir there.
34 2. Invoke the configure script:
36 - If you are building outside the source tree:
38 /PATH/TO/EMACS/SOURCE/TREE/configure --prefix=PREFIX ...
40 - If you are building in-place, i.e. inside the source tree:
42 ./configure --prefix=PREFIX ...
44 It is always preferable to use --prefix to configure Emacs for
45 some specific location of its installed tree; the default
46 /usr/local is not suitable for Windows (see the detailed
47 instructions for the reasons). The prefix must be absolute.
49 You can pass other options to the configure script. Here's a
50 typical example (for an in-place debug build):
52 CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=/d/usr/emacs --enable-checking='yes,glyphs'
54 3. After the configure script finishes, it should display the
55 resulting configuration. After that, type
59 Use "make -j N" if your MSYS Make supports parallel execution;
60 the build will take significantly less time in that case. Here N
61 is the number of simultaneous parallel jobs; use the number of
62 the cores on your system.
64 4. Install the produced binaries:
68 If you want the installation tree to go to a place that is
69 different from the one specified by --prefix, say
71 make install prefix=/where/ever/you/want
75 If these short instructions somehow fail, read the rest of this
78 * Installing MinGW and MSYS
80 Make sure you carefully read the following two sections in their
81 entirety and install/configure the various packages as instructed.
82 A correct installation makes all the rest almost trivial; a botched
83 installation will likely make you miserable for quite some time.
85 There are two alternatives to installing MinGW + MSYS: using the GUI
86 installer, called mingw-get, provided by the MinGW project, or
87 manual installation. The next two sections describe each one of
90 ** Installing MinGW and MSYS using mingw-get
92 A nice installer, called mingw-get, is available for those who don't
93 like to mess with manual installations. You can download it from
96 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get/
98 (This installer only supports packages downloaded from the MinGW
99 site; for the rest you will still need the manual method.)
101 After installing mingw-get, invoke it to install the packages that
102 are already selected by default on the "Select Components" screen of
105 After that, use "mingw-get install PACKAGE" to install the following
109 . mingw-developer-toolkit
111 (We recommend that you refrain from installing the MSYS Texinfo
112 package, which is part of msys-base, because it might produce mixed
113 EOL format when installing Info files. Instead, install the MinGW
114 port of Texinfo, see the ezwinports URL below. To uninstall the
115 MSYS Texinfo, after installing it as part of msys-base, invoke the
116 command "mingw-get remove msys-texinfo".)
118 At this point, you should be ready to configure and build Emacs in
119 its basic configuration. Skip to the "Generating the configure
120 script" section for the build instructions. If you want to build it
121 with image support and other optional libraries, read about the
122 optional libraries near the end of this document, before you start
123 the build. Also, consider installing additional MinGW packages that
124 are required/recommended, especially if you are building from the
125 repository, as described in the next section.
127 ** Installing MinGW and MSYS manually
131 You will need to install the MinGW port of GCC and Binutils, and the
132 MinGW runtime and Windows API distributions, to compile Emacs. You
133 can find these on the MinGW download/Base page:
135 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/
137 In general, install the latest stable versions of the following
138 MinGW packages from that page: gcc, binutils, mingw-rt, w32api. You
139 only need the 'bin' and the 'dll' tarballs of each of the above.
141 MinGW packages are distributed as .tar.lzma compressed archives. To
142 install the packages manually, we recommend to use the Windows port
143 of the 'bsdtar' program to unpack the tarballs. 'bsdtar' is
144 available as part of the 'libarchive' package from here:
146 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
148 The recommended place to install these packages is a single tree
149 starting from some directory on a drive other than the system drive
150 C:. A typical example would be D:\usr, with D:\usr\bin holding the
151 binaries and DLLs (should be added to your Path environment
152 variable), D:\usr\include holding the include files, D:\usr\lib
153 holding the static and import libraries, D:\usr\share holding docs,
154 message catalogs, and package-specific subdirectories, etc.
156 Having all the headers and libraries in a single place will greatly
157 reduce the number of -I and -L flags you will have to pass to the
158 configure script (see below), as these files will be right where the
159 compiler expects them.
161 We specifically do NOT recommend installing packages below
162 "C:\Program Files" or "C:\Program Files (x86)". These directories
163 are protected on versions of Windows from Vista and on, and you will
164 have difficulties updating and maintaining your installation later,
165 due to UAC elevation prompts, file virtualization, etc. You *have*
168 Additional MinGW packages are required/recommended, especially if
169 you are building from the repository:
171 . Texinfo (needed to produce the Info manuals when building from
172 bzr/git, and for "make install")
174 Available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
176 . pkg-config (invoked by the configure script to look for optional
179 Available from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
181 . gzip (needed to compress files during "make install")
183 Available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm.
185 Each package might list other packages as prerequisites on its
186 download page (under "Runtime requirements"); download those as
187 well. (Using the mingw-get installer will fetch those prerequisites
188 automatically for you.) A missing prerequisite will manifest itself
189 by the program failing to run and presenting a pop-up dialog that
190 states the missing or incompatible DLL; be sure to find and install
193 Once you think you have MinGW installed, test the installation by
194 building a trivial "hello, world!" program, and make sure that it
195 builds without any error messages and the binary works when run.
199 You will need a reasonably full MSYS installation. MSYS is an
200 environment needed to run the Posix configure scripts and the
201 resulting Makefile's, in order to produce native Windows binaries
202 using the MinGW compiler and runtime libraries. Here's the list of
203 MSYS packages that are required:
205 . All the packages from the MSYS Base distribution, listed here:
207 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/
209 . Additional packages listed below, from the MSYS Extension
212 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/
220 These should only be needed if you intend to build development
221 versions of Emacs from the repository.
223 . Additional packages (needed only if building from the
224 repository): Automake and Autoconf. They are available from
227 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/automake-1.11.6-msys-bin.zip/download
228 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/autoconf-2.65-msys-bin.zip/download
230 MSYS packages are distributed as .tar.lzma compressed archives. To
231 install the packages manually, we recommend to use the Windows port
232 of the 'bsdtar' program, already mentioned above.
234 MSYS packages should be installed in a separate tree from MinGW.
235 For example, use D:\MSYS or D:\usr\MSYS as the top-level directory
236 from which you unpack all of the MSYS packages.
238 After installing Automake and Autoconf, make sure any of the *.m4
239 files you might have in your MinGW installation also exist in the
240 MSYS installation tree, in the share/aclocal directory. Those *.m4
241 files which exist in the MinGW tree, but not in the MSYS tree should
244 If/when you are confident in your MinGW/MSYS installation, and want
245 to speed up the builds, we recommend installing a pre-release
246 version of Make from here:
248 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-packages/
250 These are snapshot builds of many packages, but you only need
251 make.exe from there. The advantage of this make.exe is that it
252 supports parallel builds, so you can use "make -j N" to considerably
253 speed up your builds.
255 Several users reported that MSYS 1.0.18 causes Make to hang in
256 parallel builds. If you bump into this, we suggest to downgrade to
257 MSYS 1.0.17, which doesn't have that problem.
259 For each of these packages, install the 'bin' and 'dll' tarballs of
260 their latest stable releases. If there's an 'ext' tarball (e.g.,
261 msysCORE and Coreutils have it), download and install those as well.
263 Each package might list other packages as prerequisites on its
264 download page (under "Runtime requirements"); download those as
265 well. (Using the mingw-get installer will fetch those prerequisites
266 automatically for you.) A missing prerequisite will manifest itself
267 by the program failing to run and presenting a pop-up dialog that
268 states the missing or incompatible DLL; be sure to find and install
271 Do NOT add the MSYS bin directory to your Windows Path! Only the
272 MinGW bin directory should be on Path. When you install MSYS, it
273 creates a shortcut on your desktop that invokes the MSYS Bash shell
274 in a Command Prompt window; that shell is already set up so that the
275 MSYS bin directory is on PATH ahead of any other directory. Thus,
276 Bash will find MSYS executables first, which is exactly what you
279 * Starting the MSYS Bash shell
281 For most reliable and predictable results, we recommend to start
282 Bash by clicking the "MSYS" icon on your desktop. That icon is
283 created when you install MSYS, and using it is the official way of
284 running the MSYS tools.
286 For other methods of starting the shell, make sure Bash is invoked
287 with the "--login" command-line switch.
289 When the shell window opens and you get the shell prompt, change to
290 the directory where you intend to build Emacs.
292 At this point, you are ready to build Emacs in its basic
293 configuration. If you want to build it with image support and other
294 optional libraries, read about that near the end of this document.
296 * Generating the configure script
298 If you are building a release or pretest tarball, skip this section,
299 because the configure script is already present in the tarball.
301 To build a development snapshot from the Emacs repository,
302 you will first need to generate the configure script and a few other
303 auto-generated files.
305 To generate the configure script, type this at the MSYS Bash prompt
306 from the top-level directory of the Emacs source tree:
310 If successful, this command should produce the following output:
313 Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
314 (Read INSTALL.REPO for more details on building Emacs)
316 Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65)...
318 Checking for automake (need at least version 1.11)...
320 Your system has the required tools, running autoreconf...
321 You can now run `./configure'.
323 * Configuring Emacs for MinGW:
325 Now it's time to run the configure script. You can do that either
326 from a separate build directory that is outside of the Emacs source
327 tree (recommended), or from inside the source tree. The former is
328 recommended because it allows you to have several different builds,
329 e.g., an optimized build and an unoptimized one, of the same
330 revision of the source tree; the source tree will be left in its
331 pristine state, without any build products.
333 You invoke the configure script like this:
335 /PATH/TO/EMACS/SOURCE/TREE/configure --prefix=PREFIX ...
337 or, if you are building in-place, i.e. inside the source tree:
339 ./configure --prefix=PREFIX ...
341 Here PREFIX is the place where you eventually want to install Emacs
342 once built, e.g. /d/usr. We recommend to always use --prefix when
343 building Emacs on Windows, because the default '/usr/local' is not
344 appropriate for Windows: it will be mapped by MSYS to something like
345 C:\MSYS\local, and it will defeat the purpose of PREFIX, which is to
346 install programs in a single coherent tree resembling Posix systems.
347 Such a single-tree installation makes sure all the other programs
348 and packages ported from GNU or Unix systems will work seamlessly
349 together. Where exactly is the root of that tree on your system is
350 something only you, the user who builds Emacs, can know, and the
351 Emacs build process cannot guess, because usually there's no
352 '/usr/local' directory on any drive on Windows systems.
354 Do NOT use Windows-style x:/foo/bar file names on the configure
355 script command line; use the MSYS-style /x/foo/bar instead. Using
356 Windows-style file names was reported to cause subtle and hard to
357 figure out problems during the build. This applies both to the
358 command switches, such as --prefix=, and to the absolute file name
359 of 'configure', if you are building outside of the source tree.
361 You can pass additional options to the configure script, for the
366 As explained in the help text, you may need to tell the script what
367 are the optional flags to invoke the compiler. This is needed if
368 some of your headers and libraries, e.g., those belonging to
369 optional image libraries, are installed in places where the compiler
370 normally doesn't look for them. (Remember that advice above to
371 avoid such situations? here's is where you will start paying for
372 disregarding that recommendation.) For example, if you have libpng
373 headers in C:\emacs\libs\libpng-1.2.37-lib\include and jpeg library
374 headers in C:\emacs\libs\jpeg-6b-4-lib\include, you will need to say
377 CPPFLAGS='-I/c/emacs/libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -I/c/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include' ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
379 which is quite a mouth-full, especially if you have more directories
380 to specify... Perhaps you may wish to revisit your installation
383 If you have a global site-lisp directory from previous Emacs
384 installation, and you want Emacs to continue using it, specify it
385 via the --enable-locallisppath switch to 'configure', like this:
387 ./configure --prefix=PREFIX --enable-locallisppath="/d/usr/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp:/d/wherever/site-lisp"
389 Use the normal MSYS /d/foo/bar style to specify directories by their
392 A few frequently used options are needed when you want to produce an
393 unoptimized binary with runtime checks enabled:
395 CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=PREFIX --enable-checking='yes,glyphs'
397 Once invoked, the configure script will run for some time, and, if
398 successful, will eventually produce a summary of the configuration
401 Configured for `i686-pc-mingw32'.
403 Where should the build process find the source code? /path/to/emacs/sources
404 What compiler should emacs be built with? gcc -std=gnu99 -O0 -g3
405 Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc? no
406 (The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.)
407 Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers? no
408 Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation? yes
409 What window system should Emacs use? w32
410 What toolkit should Emacs use? none
411 Where do we find X Windows header files? NONE
412 Where do we find X Windows libraries? NONE
413 Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no
414 Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes
415 Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes
416 Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes
417 Does Emacs use a gif library? yes
418 Does Emacs use a png library? yes
419 Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2? yes
420 Does Emacs use imagemagick? no
421 Does Emacs support sound? no
422 Does Emacs use -lgpm? no
423 Does Emacs use -ldbus? no
424 Does Emacs use -lgconf? no
425 Does Emacs use GSettings? no
426 Does Emacs use a file notification library? yes (w32)
427 Does Emacs use access control lists? yes
428 Does Emacs use -lselinux? no
429 Does Emacs use -lgnutls? yes
430 Does Emacs use -lxml2? yes
431 Does Emacs use -lfreetype? no
432 Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt? no
433 Does Emacs use -lotf? no
434 Does Emacs use -lxft? no
435 Does Emacs directly use zlib? yes
436 Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars? yes
438 You are almost there, hang on.
440 If the output is significantly different, or if configure finishes
441 prematurely and displays some error message, you should examine the
442 configuration log in config.log and find the reason for the failure.
444 Once you succeeded in configuring Emacs, and just want to rebuild it
445 after updating your local repository from the main repository, you
446 don't need to re-run the configure script manually, unless you want
447 to change the configure-time options. Just typing "make" will
448 re-run configure if necessary with the exact same options you
449 specified originally, and then go on to invoking Make, described
454 This is simple: just type "make" and sit back, watching the fun.
456 If you installed a snapshot build of Make, the build will be much
457 faster if you type "make -j N" instead, where N is the number of
458 independent processing units on your machine. E.g., on a core i7
459 system try using N of 6 or even 8. (If this hangs, see the notes
460 above about downgrading to MSYS 1.0.17.)
462 When Make finishes, you can install the produced binaries:
466 or, if you want the installed tree to go in a place different from
467 the configured one, type
469 make install prefix=WHEREVER
471 Congrats! You have built and installed your own Emacs!
475 The following make targets may be used by users building the source
476 distribution, or users who have checked out of the repository after
477 an initial bootstrapping.
480 Builds Emacs from the available sources and pre-compiled lisp files.
483 Installs the built programs and the auxiliary files.
486 Removes object and executable files produced by the build process in
487 the current configuration. After "make clean", you can rebuild with
488 the same configuration using make. useful when you want to be sure
489 that all of the products are built from coherent sources.
492 In addition to the files removed by make clean, this also removes
493 Makefiles and other generated files to get back to the state of a
494 freshly unpacked source distribution. After make distclean, it is
495 necessary to run the configure script followed by "make", in order
498 The following targets are intended only for use with the repository
502 Removes all the auto-generated files and all the *.elc byte-compiled
503 files, and builds Emacs from scratch. Useful when some change in
504 basic Emacs functionality makes byte compilation of updated files
507 make maintainer-clean
508 Removes everything that can be recreated, including compiled Lisp
509 files, to get back to the state of a fresh repository tree. After make
510 maintainer-clean, it is necessary to run configure and "make" or
511 "make bootstrap" to rebuild. Occasionally it may be necessary to
512 run this target after an update.
514 * Optional image library support
516 In addition to its "native" image formats (pbm and xbm), Emacs can
517 handle other image types: xpm, tiff, gif, png, jpeg and experimental
520 To build Emacs with support for them, the corresponding headers must
521 be in the include path and libraries should be where the linker
522 looks for them, when the configure script is run. If needed, this
523 can be set up using the CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS variable specified on
524 the configure command line. The configure script will report
525 whether it was able to detect the headers and libraries. If the
526 results of this testing appear to be incorrect, please look for
527 details in the file config.log: it will show the failed test
528 programs and compiler error messages that should explain what is
529 wrong. (Usually, any such failures happen because some headers are
530 missing due to bad packaging of the image support libraries.)
532 Note that any file path passed to the compiler or linker must use
533 forward slashes, or double each backslash, as that is how Bash
536 If the configure script finds the necessary headers and libraries,
537 but they are for some reason incompatible, or if you want to omit
538 support for some image library that is installed on your system for
539 some other reason, use the --without-PACKAGE option to configure,
540 such as --without-gif to omit GIF, --without-tiff to omit TIFF, etc.
541 Passing the --help option to the configure script displays all of
542 the supported --without-PACKAGE options.
544 To use the external image support, the DLLs implementing the
545 functionality must be found when Emacs first needs them, either on the
546 PATH, or in the same directory as emacs.exe. Failure to find a
547 library is not an error; the associated image format will simply be
548 unavailable. Note that once Emacs has determined that a library can
549 not be found, there's no way to force it to try again, other than
550 restarting. See the variable `dynamic-library-alist' to configure the
551 expected names of the libraries.
553 Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib.
554 For example, tiff support depends on the jpeg library. If you did not
555 compile the libraries yourself, you must make sure that any dependency
556 is in the PATH or otherwise accessible and that the binaries are
557 compatible (for example, that they were built with the same compiler).
559 For PNG images, we recommend to use versions 1.4.x and later of
560 libpng, because previous versions had security issues. You can find
561 precompiled libraries and headers on the GTK download page for
562 Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php for 32-bit builds and
563 http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php for 64-bit builds). The
564 ezwinports site, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
565 also offers PNG (as well as other image libraries), which are
568 Versions 1.4.0 and later of libpng are binary incompatible with
569 earlier versions, so Emacs will only look for libpng libraries which
570 are compatible with the version it was compiled against. That
571 version is given by the value of the Lisp variable `libpng-version';
572 e.g., 10403 means version 1.4.3. The variable `dynamic-library-alist'
573 is automatically set to name only those DLL names that are known to
574 be compatible with the version given by `libpng-version'. If PNG
575 support does not work for you even though you have the support DLL
576 installed, check the name of the installed DLL against
577 `dynamic-library-alist' and the value of `libpng-version', and
578 download compatible DLLs if needed.
580 For GIF images, we recommend to use versions 5.0.0 or later of
581 giflib, as it is much enhanced wrt previous versions. You can find
582 precompiled binaries and headers for giflib on the ezwinports site,
583 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
585 Version 5.0.0 and later of giflib are binary incompatible with
586 previous versions (the signatures of several functions have
587 changed), so Emacs will only look for giflib libraries that are
588 compatible with the version it was compiled against. Similar to
589 libpng, that version is given by the value of the Lisp variable
590 `libgif-version'; e.g., 50005 means version 5.0.5. The variable
591 `dynamic-library-alist' is automatically set to name only those DLL
592 libraries that are known to be compatible with the version given by
595 For JPEG images, you will need libjpeg 6b or later, which will be
596 called libjpeg-N.dll, jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, or jpeg.dll. You can
597 find these on the ezwinports site.
599 TIFF images require libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called
600 libtiffN.dll or libtiff-N.dll or libtiff.dll. These can be found on
603 Pre-built versions of librsvg and its dependencies can be found in
606 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
608 This site includes a minimal (as much as possible for librsvg)
609 build of the library and its dependencies; it is also more
610 up-to-date with the latest upstream versions. However, it
611 currently only offers 32-bit builds. For building Emacs, you
612 need to download from this site all of the following *-bin.zip
615 librsvg, gdk-pixbuf, cairo, glib
617 The 'bin' archives on this site include both header files and the
618 libraries needed for building with librsvg and for running Emacs.
619 The librsvg archive includes all the shared libraries needed to
620 run Emacs with SVG support; the other 3 packages are required
621 because the compiler needs to see their header files when
624 2. GTK project download site for Windows (see above for 2 URLs,
625 either for 32-bit builds or 64-bit builds)
627 This is the official Windows download site of the GTK project.
628 Its builds of librsvg are fatter, but are currently the only
629 alternative for 64-bit builds. The easiest way to obtain the
630 dependencies required for building from this site is to download
631 a pre-bundled GTK+ development environment for Windows. If you
632 would nevertheless like to download only the packages that are
633 strictly required, then, as of the time of this writing, here's
634 the list of GTK+ packages you will need:
636 librsvg, pango, freetype-2.4.11, freetype-2.4.2, croco, cairo,
637 glib, gdk-pixbuf, fontconfig, libpng-1.4.x, libpng-1.5.x,
638 libffi, libxml2, zlib
640 The GTK download page provides 2 separate archives for each
641 package: a 'bin' (binary) archive with programs and DLLs, and a
642 'dev' (development) archive with header files, import libraries,
643 and pkg-config files; download and install both archives for each
644 package you need. (Sources of each package are available in a
645 separate, 3rd archive.)
647 As you see, some libraries for using this site's librsvg are
648 needed in more than one version -- this is because librsvg and
649 some of its dependencies were linked against different versions
650 of those libraries, and will look only for those DLLs when you
651 invoke SVG function. So there's a bit of "DLL hell" involved
652 here, but at least in theory this should work, as each library
653 will dynamically link only against its dependencies, even if
654 another version of the same library is already loaded. In
655 particular, at least 2 different versions of libpng will have to
656 be installed on your machine. When you install these libpng
657 versions, be sure to keep the header files and the pkg-config
658 files in sync, i.e. install both the 'bin' and 'dev' archives of
659 the same libpng version together.
661 To use librsvg at runtime, ensure that librsvg and its dependencies
662 are on your PATH, or in the same directory as the emacs.exe binary.
663 If you are downloading from the ezwinports site, you only need to
664 install a single archive, librsvg-X.Y.Z-w32-bin.zip, which includes
665 all the dependency DLLs. For the GTK project site, download the
666 'bin' archives for each of the libraries mentioned above.
668 If you think you've got all the dependencies and SVG support is
669 still not working, check your PATH for other libraries that shadow
670 the ones you downloaded. Libraries of the same name from different
671 sources may not be compatible, this problem was encountered in the
672 past, e.g., with libcroco from gnome.org.
674 If you can see etc/images/splash.svg, then you have managed to get
675 SVG support working. Congratulations for making it through DLL hell
676 to this point. For some SVG images, you'll probably see error
677 messages from Glib about failed assertions, or warnings from Pango
678 about failure to load fonts (installing the missing fonts should fix
679 the latter kind of problems). Problems have been observed in some
680 images that contain text, they seem to be a problem in the Windows
681 port of Pango, or maybe a problem with the way Cairo or librsvg is
682 using it that doesn't show up on other platforms. However, Emacs
683 should not crash due to these issues. If you eventually find the
684 SVG support too unstable to your taste, you can rebuild Emacs
685 without it by specifying the --without-rsvg switch to the configure
688 Binaries for the other image libraries can be found on the
689 ezwinports site or at the GnuWin32 project (the latter are generally
690 very old, so not recommended). Note specifically that, due to some
691 packaging snafus in the GnuWin32-supplied image libraries, you will
692 need to download _source_ packages for some of the libraries in
693 order to get the header files necessary for building Emacs with
696 * Optional GnuTLS support
698 To compile with GnuTLS, you will need pkg-config to be installed, as
699 the configure script invokes pkg-config to find out which compiler
700 switches to use for GnuTLS. See above for the URL where you can
701 find pkg-config for Windows.
703 You will also need to install the p11-kit package, which is a
704 dependency of GnuTLS, and its header files are needed for
705 compilation of programs that use GnuTLS. You can find p11-kit on
706 the same site as GnuTLS, see the URL below.
708 If the configure script finds the GnuTLS header files and libraries
709 on your system, Emacs is built with GnuTLS support by default; to
710 avoid that you can pass the argument --without-gnutls.
712 In order to support GnuTLS at runtime, a GnuTLS-enabled Emacs must
713 be able to find the relevant DLLs during startup; failure to do so
714 is not an error, but GnuTLS won't be available to the running
717 You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
718 header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
720 * Optional libxml2 support
722 To compile with libxml2, you will need pkg-config to be installed,
723 as the configure script invokes pkg-config to find out which
724 compiler switches to use for libxml2. See above for the URL where
725 you can find pkg-config for Windows.
727 If the configure script finds the libxml2 header files and libraries
728 on your system, Emacs is built with libxml2 support by default; to
729 avoid that you can pass the argument --without-libxml2.
731 In order to support libxml2 at runtime, a libxml2-enabled Emacs must
732 be able to find the relevant DLLs during startup; failure to do so
733 is not an error, but libxml2 features won't be available to the
736 One place where you can get pre-built Windows binaries of libxml2
737 (including any required DLL and the header files) is here:
739 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
741 For runtime support of libxml2, you will also need to install the
742 libiconv "development" tarball, because the libiconv headers need to
743 be available to the compiler when you compile with libxml2 support.
744 A MinGW port of libiconv can be found on the MinGW site:
746 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/libiconv/
748 You need the libiconv-X.Y.Z-N-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma tarball from that
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