mj54...@gmail.com writes:
> Is there a pre-built 64-bit Emacs for Windows available at all? I
> assume 64-bit version of Emacs could run on a 64-bit Windows 7.
I don't think a 64-bit pre-built version is available, no. That said,
the 32-bit version runs just fine on Windows 7, speaking from experience.
thanks for reply. the reason that I want to run 64-bit version is to be able to deal with larger files.
can any Emacs developer shed some light here? The one that P. Eggert patched seems to be very nice (32-bit Emacs but can support very large files). But I don't know if his patch is included in the latest pretest Emacs. He discussed the patch he had back in Apirl, but then have not seen any discussion after that.
> can any Emacs developer shed some light here? The one that P. Eggert
> patched seems to be very nice (32-bit Emacs but can support very large
> files). But I don't know if his patch is included in the latest
> pretest Emacs.
Stefan, thank you for confirming the patch is included. do you know if this 32+64-bit support is compiled in when the pre-built binary is made available on the developer mailing list? or we would have to build ourselves in order to have the large file support? Thanks again.
> Stefan, thank you for confirming the patch is included. do you know if this
> 32+64-bit support is compiled in when the pre-built binary is made available
> on the developer mailing list? or we would have to build ourselves in order
> to have the large file support? Thanks again.
I don't know those details, but I'd expect that the distributed
pre-built binary uses the default compilation flags, which means it's
built a a "32bit words on 32bit system" rather than as a "64bit words on
a 32bit system". I.e. you'll need to build it yourself if you want to
use buffers larger than 512MB on a 32bit system.
In article <jwv1uv7ceq6.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.h...@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Stefan, thank you for confirming the patch is included. do you know if this
>> 32+64-bit support is compiled in when the pre-built binary is made available
>> on the developer mailing list? or we would have to build ourselves in order
>> to have the large file support? Thanks again.
>I don't know those details, but I'd expect that the distributed
>pre-built binary uses the default compilation flags, which means it's
>built a a "32bit words on 32bit system" rather than as a "64bit words on
>a 32bit system". I.e. you'll need to build it yourself if you want to
>use buffers larger than 512MB on a 32bit system.
> Stefan
No one yet has said WHERE to get this prebuilt emacs for windows.
Please, where is it?
(I ask here instead of google because the answer from here will
(presumably) be from someone who has actually gotten his/her from
there, and it indeed works ok.)
WAY too bad no such ready-to-go-solaris=package exists OUTSIDE
OF blastwave and opencsw -- because both systems use the same
/opt/csw, so you have to choose ONE of the two, and FOREVER
STICK WITH THAT ONE.
All seemingly due to a stupid fight between the founders (I make
take some grief on using that word) of the two competitors.)
Wouldn't it be nice if someone put up (and then maintained)
the newest version of emacs!
But beware -- don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen :-(
> WAY too bad no such ready-to-go-solaris=package exists OUTSIDE > OF blastwave and opencsw -- because both systems use the same > /opt/csw, so you have to choose ONE of the two, and FOREVER > STICK WITH THAT ONE.
Is it really that hard to compile it yourself? The reason we have prebuilt Windows binaries is that fairly few people have the right tools to build Emacs on Window, whereas for POSIX systems it tends to be a lot more common to have all the needed development tools already (or easily installed).
> Wouldn't it be nice if someone put up (and then maintained) > the newest version of emacs!
It used to be quite common (around 10 years ago when I last used Solaris on a regular basis) for Solaris machines to have no development tools or an improperly configured installation of Sun's compiler installed (as in, you need to mess about with environment variables to get it working, and then it has various shortcomings compared to gcc).
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:41:37 PM UTC+8, (unknown) wrote:
> Is there a pre-built 64-bit Emacs for Windows available at all? I assume 64-bit version of Emacs could run on a 64-bit Windows 7.
> Also, I read that P. Eggert has created a 64-bit integer support to run on a 32-bit host. Anyone knows where to get this version?
