summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--nt/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL13
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 91696f44b0e..5df79a70fc1 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-03-03 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * INSTALL: Add URL of another site with detailed build
+ instructions.
+
2007-02-16 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* icons/gnu2a32.ico, icons/gnu2a32t.ico, icons/gnu2b48.ico:
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index e5ef978a847..cc677c3486d 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
command.com /c configure.bat
3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment. If you build
- with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler:
+ with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using
+ VC++ 8.0 and later below):
nmake
@@ -108,7 +109,8 @@
part).
Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not
- supported at this time.
+ supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into
+ the libraries shipped with the compiler.
The rest of this file assumes you have a working development
environment. If you just installed such an environment, try
@@ -192,9 +194,14 @@
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
- and at this URL:
+ and on these URLs:
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
+ http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx
+
+ The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC,
+ as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but
+ has more details about it.
* Configuring