The build of Emacs-23.1.release (GTK) with GCC-4.3.2 and Cygwin-1.5.25-15
======================================================================================


You can download the binaries as follow:

wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/release/pkg.1-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma

wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/release/pkg.2-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma

wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/release/pkg.3-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma

wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/release/pkg.4-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma


(I have splitted a single tarball for disk quota reasons).


To install (you need the tar package, version >= 1.19.90-1):

   tar --lzma -xvf pkg.1-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma -C /
   tar --lzma -xvf pkg.2-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma -C /
   tar --lzma -xvf pkg.3-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma -C /
   tar --lzma -xvf pkg.4-emacs-23.1.release.tar.lzma -C /

   cd /usr/local/bin

   ln -sf /usr/local/emacs/bin/emacs.exe emacs23


(Or more quickly:

   wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/release/get_and_install-emacs-23.1.release.sh

   chmod +x get_and_install-emacs-23.1.release.sh

   ./get_and_install-emacs-23.1.release.sh
)


To start (from an X-shell)

   $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs23 &

You NEED to add 'G_SLICE=always-malloc' or it will fail with an error message like this:

'***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2328]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes (alignment: 512): Function not implemented'


At least the following libraries are requested (+ X packages):

  - gtk2-x11-runtime
  - libjpeg62
  - libncurses8
  - libpng12
  - libtiff5
  - libungif4
  - libXft2


The best results are obtained adding to ~/.Xdefaults:

Emacs.FontBackend:      xft
Emacs.font:             Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 15

Xft*antialias: true
Xft*autohint: true




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