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Copyright (C) 2001-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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Emacs for Windows
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This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of
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GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the
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standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from:
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https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
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If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need
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to download one of those before you can use this barebin version.
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An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in
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the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs
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(temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you
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should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with
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more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after
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patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded.
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The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a
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number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable
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preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions,
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Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration.
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To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by
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unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To
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verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that
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you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory.
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Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and
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run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you
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to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not
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overwritten if you run dump more than once).
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For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file
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that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on
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Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to
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<help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>.
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Enjoy!
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This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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