Re: Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > I was looking at the web pages repository for the MS Windows FAQ. The 
> > pages there all seems to say Emacs 21.3, not Emacs 22. I see however 
> > that they were updated last time some months ago and I guess that 
> > Ramprasad have not had time to do more than he did then.
>
> Well, to best of my knowledge, there is only pre-compiled "stable" 
> version distribution, that is, Emacs 19, 20 and 21.3 (the last "stable" 
> version).
>
> There is no pre-compiled "testing" distribution, that is, Emacs 22 or 23.
>
> I think that after Emacs 22 release there will be a pre-compiled version 
> for Windows.
>
> Humm, did you see the link:
>
>      
> http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx 
>
>
> ??
>
> It seems useful for Emacs (22 or 23) installation for Windows.

Ehum, and as someone wrote in a comment on that blog page some days ago 
there are binary builds available on the net. They are not official, but 
I at least upload a binary built from CVS immediately after Chong 
releases the pretest tarballs.

There is a special page on EmacsWiki which has links to different 
prebuilt binaries of CVS Emacs:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo

And on the page

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html

there have been instructions similar to those on that blog page for long 
time now. (But it includes quite a bit more since I did a lot of 
learning and testing at the time I wrote it.)