Instructions are modified from emacs-w64 Wiki page by zklhp. Many thanks for sharing!
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Download the latest MSYS2 from this download page.
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Install MSYS2 to, for example,
C:\msys2(make sure no space in path to avoid unwanted problems). -
Optionally prettify the MSYS2 console
minttywith~/.minttyrcto make it more pleasing to eyes. Thanks to this awesome theme!
ForegroundColour=131,148,150
BackgroundColour=0,43,54
CursorColour=192,192,192
Black=7,54,66
BoldBlack=0,43,54
Red=220,50,47
BoldRed=203,75,22
Green=133,153,0
BoldGreen=88,110,117
Yellow=181,137,0
BoldYellow=101,123,131
Blue=38,139,210
BoldBlue=131,148,150
Magenta=211,54,130
BoldMagenta=108,113,196
Cyan=42,161,152
BoldCyan=147,161,161
White=238,232,213
BoldWhite=253,246,227
BoldAsFont=yes
Font=Consolas
FontHeight=12
Transparency=off
OpaqueWhenFocused=no
ScrollbackLines=200000
FontSmoothing=full
CursorType=underscore
CursorBlinks=yes
ScrollMod=off
RightClickAction=paste
ClickTargetMod=off
- Remove all
/c/*paths in$PATHby adding this to.bashrcand restart mintty.
This is important to avoid interference from programs installed on the same machine, especially if you have Cygwin installed.
# Remove '/c/*' from PATH if running under Msys to avoid possible
# interference from programs already installed on system. Removal
# with awk is copied from http://stackoverflow.com/a/370192.
if [ $(uname -o) == 'Msys' ]; then
export PATH=`echo ${PATH} | awk -v RS=: -v ORS=: '/c\// {next} {print}' | sed 's/:*$//'`
fiThe whole .bashrc is copied here.
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
##############
### Basics ###
##############
# Don't wait for job termination notification
set -o notify
# Enables UTF-8 in Putty.
# See http://www.earth.li/~huggie/blog/tech/mobile/putty-utf-8-trick.html
echo -ne '\e%G\e[?47h\e%G\e[?47l'
# My pretty prompt (Yay!)
PS1='\[\e[32;40m\]\u\[\e[0m\]\[\e[34;40m\]\H\[\e[0m\]\[\e[40;1m\]\w\[\e[0m\] '
############
### PATH ###
############
# Remove '/c/*' from PATH if running under Msys to avoid possible
# interference from programs already installed on system. Removal
# with awk is copied from http://stackoverflow.com/a/370192.
if [ $(uname -o) == 'Msys' ]; then
export PATH=`echo ${PATH} | awk -v RS=: -v ORS=: '/c\// {next} {print}' | sed 's/:*$//'`
fi
###############
### Aliases ###
###############
alias less='less -r'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias whence='type -a'
alias ls='ls -F --color=auto'
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=long -L'
alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
alias md='mkdir'
alias pico='nano'
alias cls='clear'
- Install packages required to build Emacs.
Follow instructions on this page first.
pacman -Syu
pacman -Sy
pacman -Sy\
--needed \
filesystem \
msys2-runtime \
bash \
libreadline \
libiconv \
libarchive \
libgpgme \
libcurl \
pacman \
ncurses \
libintl
Close mintty and restart it, do this again.
pacman -Su
Then let us install all required libs for building Emacs.
pacman -Su \
autoconf \
autogen \
automake \
automake-wrapper \
diffutils \
git \
guile \
libgc \
libguile \
libidn-devel \
libltdl \
libnettle-devel \
libopenssl \
libp11-kit-devel \
libtasn1-devel \
libunistring \
make \
mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils \
mingw-w64-x86_64-bzip2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo \
mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git \
mingw-w64-x86_64-dbus \
mingw-w64-x86_64-expat \
mingw-w64-x86_64-fontconfig \
mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdk-pixbuf2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext \
mingw-w64-x86_64-giflib \
mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls \
mingw-w64-x86_64-harfbuzz \
mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git \
mingw-w64-x86_64-imagemagick \
mingw-w64-x86_64-isl \
mingw-w64-x86_64-jansson \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libffi \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libgccjit \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libidn2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libjpeg-turbo \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng \
mingw-w64-x86_64-librsvg \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libsystre \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libtasn1 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libtiff \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libunistring \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git \
mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2 \
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc \
mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr \
mingw-w64-x86_64-nettle \
mingw-w64-x86_64-p11-kit \
mingw-w64-x86_64-pango \
mingw-w64-x86_64-pixman \
mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads \
mingw-w64-x86_64-xpm-nox \
mingw-w64-x86_64-xz \
mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib \
mingw-w64-x86_64-jbigkit \
nano \
openssl \
pkgconf \
tar \
texinfo \
wget
- Get emacs source.
mkdir emacs; cd emacs
git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs.git emacs
git config core.autocrlf false
- Build Emacs!
Change target accordingly, the directory in which the freshly built Emacs binaries, libraries, and docs live.
target=/c/emacs
export PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH
mkdir build; cd build
(cd ../emacs; ./autogen.sh)
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig
../emacs/configure \
--host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
--target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
--build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
--with-native-compilation \
--with-gnutls \
--with-imagemagick \
--with-jpeg \
--with-json \
--with-png \
--with-rsvg \
--with-tiff \
--with-wide-int \
--with-xft \
--with-xml2 \
--with-xpm \
'CFLAGS=-I/mingw64/include/noX' \
prefix=$target
make
make install prefix=$target
# Only needed for standalone dist (wo MSYS2 env)
# cp /mingw64/bin/*.dll $target/bin
Doesn't matter anyway.
I can't even begin to build it now, really. Honestly I'm just so frustrated with this whole process. I've started over and followed different sets of instructions so many times that I just have lost interest in this entirely. At this point I just want to use Emacs, I don't care where I get it from (although I would absolutely be thrilled to build my own, I can't).
EDIT: btw the reason for the "complicated paths' is simply that I changed prefix from the time that I posted the script to the time I posted that particular problem.
PREFIX="c:/Emacs/bin"EDIT2: I think there would be a literal revolution if somebody could make autotools builds work consistently for Windows. Even cross compiling, so much stuff just doesn't work it's so annoying