Re: install emacs on windows

[Carson Chittom]

Leonhard Horstmeyer <lmh69@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I have just downloaded the emacs-24.2.tar.gz and followed the
> instructions on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html
> After having downloaded a program to open tar. I unpacked the file..
> It says: "You can run Emacs without any extra steps, but if you want
> icons in your Start Menu, or for Emacs to detect the image libraries
> that are already installed on your system as part of GTK, then you
> should run the program emacs-23.3\bin\addpm.exe."

It sounds like you have the Emacs source files, which isn't much use to
you unless you want to compile it.

Try the zip files at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ instead (you
want the "bin" file, NOT the "barebin").  These are prebuilt Windows
binaries.