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Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:30:41 +0300 |
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Peter Wyatt <peterwyatt59@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:00:59 +0800
>
> Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I think there is another volunteer who is providing 32-bit builds.
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
>
> Since Eli's making them, why aren't they on ftp.gnu.org? Wouldn't it be
> convenient to just put them there?
Because I cannot be bothered, and because all my other ports are on
that site, so people can download the dependency libraries they want
from the same place.
> > A 32-bit Windows build of GNU Emacs version 28.2. The MS-Windows
> > binaries of Emacs available from the GNU FTP site include only a
> > 64-bit build, and cannot run on Windows before Windows 7. This
> > 32-bit build runs on Windows XP and later, and is supposed to be
> > able to run on Windows 9X as well (but was not actually tested
> > there).
>
> Though YMMV running this on Windows 9x if it was not built with unexec
> dumping.
This port was built with pdumper, not unexec. We need to finish
debugging the problems you found with pdumper on Windows 9X some day.
(Thus the caveat in the README.)