1 /* runemacs --- Simple program to start Emacs with its console window hidden.
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
7 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 Simple program to start Emacs with its console window hidden.
24 This program is provided purely for convenience, since most users will
25 use Emacs in windowing (GUI) mode, and will not want to have an extra
26 console window lying around. */
29 You may want to define this if you want to be able to install updated
30 emacs binaries even when other users are using the current version.
31 The problem with some file servers (notably Novell) is that an open
32 file cannot be overwritten, deleted, or even renamed. So if someone
33 is running emacs.exe already, you cannot install a newer version.
34 By defining CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE, you can name your new emacs.exe
35 something else which matches "emacs*.exe", and runemacs will
36 automatically select the newest emacs executable in the bin directory.
37 (So you'll probably be able to delete the old version some hours/days
41 /* #define CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE */
47 static void set_user_model_id (void);
48 static int ensure_unicows_dll (void);
51 WinMain (HINSTANCE hSelf
, HINSTANCE hPrev
, LPSTR cmdline
, int nShow
)
54 SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sec_attrs
;
55 PROCESS_INFORMATION child
;
56 int wait_for_child
= FALSE
;
57 DWORD priority_class
= NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
61 char modname
[MAX_PATH
];
63 if (!ensure_unicows_dll ())
68 if (!GetModuleFileName (NULL
, modname
, MAX_PATH
))
70 if ((p
= strrchr (modname
, '\\')) == NULL
)
74 new_cmdline
= alloca (MAX_PATH
+ strlen (cmdline
) + 3);
75 /* Quote executable name in case of spaces in the path. */
77 strcpy (new_cmdline
+ 1, modname
);
78 /* Detect and handle un-installed runemacs.exe in nt/ subdirectory,
79 while emacs.exe is in src/. */
80 if ((p
= strrchr (new_cmdline
, '\\')) != NULL
81 && stricmp (p
, "\\nt") == 0)
84 #ifdef CHOOSE_NEWEST_EXE
86 /* Silly hack to allow new versions to be installed on
87 server even when current version is in use. */
89 char * best_name
= alloca (MAX_PATH
+ 1);
90 FILETIME best_time
= {0,0};
93 p
= new_cmdline
+ strlen (new_cmdline
);
94 strcpy (p
, "\\emacs*.exe\" ");
95 fh
= FindFirstFile (new_cmdline
, &wfd
);
96 if (fh
== INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
)
100 if (wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwHighDateTime
> best_time
.dwHighDateTime
101 || (wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwHighDateTime
== best_time
.dwHighDateTime
102 && wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
.dwLowDateTime
> best_time
.dwLowDateTime
))
104 best_time
= wfd
.ftLastWriteTime
;
105 strcpy (best_name
, wfd
.cFileName
);
108 while (FindNextFile (fh
, &wfd
));
111 strcpy (p
, best_name
);
115 strcat (new_cmdline
, "\\emacs.exe\" ");
118 /* Append original arguments if any; first look for arguments we
119 recognize (-wait, -high, and -low), and apply them ourselves. */
120 while (cmdline
[0] == '-' || cmdline
[0] == '/')
122 if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "wait", 4) == 0)
124 wait_for_child
= TRUE
;
127 else if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "high", 4) == 0)
129 priority_class
= HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
132 else if (strncmp (cmdline
+1, "low", 3) == 0)
134 priority_class
= IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS
;
139 /* Look for next argument. */
140 while (*++cmdline
== ' ');
143 strcat (new_cmdline
, cmdline
);
145 /* Set emacs_dir variable if runemacs was in "%emacs_dir%\bin". */
146 if ((p
= strrchr (modname
, '\\')) && stricmp (p
, "\\bin") == 0)
149 for (p
= modname
; *p
; p
++)
150 if (*p
== '\\') *p
= '/';
151 SetEnvironmentVariable ("emacs_dir", modname
);
154 memset (&start
, 0, sizeof (start
));
155 start
.cb
= sizeof (start
);
156 start
.dwFlags
= STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
| STARTF_USECOUNTCHARS
;
157 start
.wShowWindow
= SW_HIDE
;
158 /* Ensure that we don't waste memory if the user has specified a huge
159 default screen buffer for command windows. */
160 start
.dwXCountChars
= 80;
161 start
.dwYCountChars
= 25;
163 sec_attrs
.nLength
= sizeof (sec_attrs
);
164 sec_attrs
.lpSecurityDescriptor
= NULL
;
165 sec_attrs
.bInheritHandle
= FALSE
;
167 if (CreateProcess (NULL
, new_cmdline
, &sec_attrs
, NULL
, TRUE
, priority_class
,
168 NULL
, NULL
, &start
, &child
))
172 WaitForSingleObject (child
.hProcess
, INFINITE
);
173 GetExitCodeProcess (child
.hProcess
, &ret_code
);
175 CloseHandle (child
.hThread
);
176 CloseHandle (child
.hProcess
);
180 return (int) ret_code
;
183 MessageBox (NULL
, "Could not start Emacs.", "Error", MB_ICONSTOP
);
188 set_user_model_id (void)
191 HRESULT (WINAPI
* set_user_model
) (wchar_t * id
);
193 /* On Windows 7 and later, we need to set the user model ID
194 to associate emacsclient launched files with Emacs frames
196 shell
= LoadLibrary ("shell32.dll");
200 = (void *) GetProcAddress (shell
,
201 "SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID");
203 /* If the function is defined, then we are running on Windows 7
204 or newer, and the UI uses this to group related windows
205 together. Since emacs, runemacs, emacsclient are related, we
206 want them grouped even though the executables are different,
207 so we need to set a consistent ID between them. */
209 set_user_model (L
"GNU.Emacs");
216 ensure_unicows_dll (void)
218 OSVERSIONINFO os_ver
;
221 ZeroMemory (&os_ver
, sizeof (OSVERSIONINFO
));
222 os_ver
.dwOSVersionInfoSize
= sizeof (OSVERSIONINFO
);
223 if (!GetVersionEx (&os_ver
))
226 if (os_ver
.dwPlatformId
== VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS
)
228 h
= LoadLibrary ("Unicows.dll");
233 button
= MessageBox (NULL
,
234 "Emacs cannot load the UNICOWS.DLL library.\n"
235 "This library is essential for using Emacs\n"
236 "on this system. You need to install it.\n\n"
237 "Emacs will exit when you click OK.",
238 "Emacs cannot load UNICOWS.DLL",
239 MB_ICONERROR
| MB_TASKMODAL
240 | MB_SETFOREGROUND
| MB_OK
);