Re: runemacs.exe without installing Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Scholtes <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:08:46 -0600
> 
> I always run the trunk Emacs locally without installing on Windows. 

Just saying "make install" without specifying INSTALL_DIR will
"install" the binaries in the `bin' subdirectory of the top-level
directory.  Is that good enough?

> Right now, when running it from the build directory `nt/oo-spd/i386', it
> can't find `emacs.exe'.

It looks for emacs.exe in the same directory where runemacs.exe lives.

> Can we either
> 
>   let `runemacs.exe' check not only its current directory, but also the
>   `src' build directory for an `emacs.exe'

This is not easy, since the `i386' part is not known by the binary,
AFAIK.

> or
> 
>   add a command line option for `runemacs.exe' to provide a path to
>   `emacs.exe'

This is possible.  We could, for example, add a -dir switch that would
tell runemacs.exe in which directory to look for emacs.exe.

That is, assuming that the "make install" technique somehow does not
satisfy your needs.