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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-09-25 18:16:07 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-09-25 18:16:07 +0300
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Minor copyedits of MS-Windows installation instructions
* nt/INSTALL: * nt/README.W32: Add URL of Emacs dependencies on alpha.gnu.org.
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+++ b/nt/README.W32
@@ -140,10 +140,12 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
-- up-to-date builds, self-contained archives, only for 32-bit Emacs
- 2. The MSYS2 project -- for 64-bit Emacs:
+ 2. Libraries from the MSYS2 project on alpha.gnu.org:
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
+ 3. The MSYS2 project -- for 64-bit Emacs:
http://msys2.github.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/
- 3. GnuWin32 project -- very old 32-bit builds, not recommended
+ 4. GnuWin32 project -- very old 32-bit builds, not recommended
The libraries to download are mentioned below. Some libraries
depend on others that need to be downloaded separately from the same
@@ -197,7 +199,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
but GnuTLS won't be available to the running session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any dependency DLLs) at
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and on
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
* libxml2 support
@@ -210,7 +213,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
running session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
- header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
* zlib support
@@ -219,9 +223,9 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
the zlib-decompress-region primitive.
Prebuilt binaries of zlib DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are
- available from the ezwinports site; see above for the URL. For the
- 64-bit DLL, see the instructions below for installing from MSYS2
- site.
+ available from the ezwinports site and on alpha.gnu; see above for
+ the URLs. For the 64-bit DLL, see the instructions below for
+ installing from MSYS2 site.
(This library is also a prerequisite for several image libraries, so
you may already have it; look for zlib1.dll or libz-1.dll.)