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authorFabrice Popineau <[email protected]>2014-05-27 20:31:17 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2014-05-27 20:31:17 +0300
commit587fd086a045f715932f886ecf31015932464ce6 (patch)
treed8c647af107ef94318fd920a05da09af654ef1c9 /etc/NEWS
parent0da7d35c6754b44d1ef4383e4a8ba9b98afc3a4c (diff)
Use mmap(2) emulation for buffer text on MS-Windows.
src/Makefile.in (C_HEAP_SWITCH): Get the predefined heap size from configure. (ADDSECTION, MINGW_TEMACS_POST_LINK): Remove, no longer used. src/lisp.h (NONPOINTER_BITS): Modify the condition to define to zero for MinGW, since it no longer uses gmalloc. src/buffer.c: Do not define mmap allocations functions for Windows. Remove mmap_find which is unused. Remove mmap_set_vars which does nothing useful. [WINDOWSNT]: Include w32heap.h. (init_buffer): Always allocate new memory for buffers. src/emacs.c: Remove mmap_set_vars calls. src/image.c (free_image): Undef free for Windows because it is redirected to our private version. src/unexw32.c (COPY_PROC_CHUNK): Use %p format for 64bits compatibility. (copy_executable_and_dump_data): Remove dumping the heap section. (unexec): Restore using_dynamic_heap after dumping. src/w32heap.c (dumped_data_commit, malloc_after_dump) (malloc_before_dump, realloc_after_dump, realloc_before_dump) (free_after_dump, free_before_dump, mmap_alloc, mmap_realloc) (mmap_free): New functions. src/w32heap.h: Declare dumped_data and mmap_* function prototypes. nt/inc/ms-w32.h: Switch to the system heap allocation scheme instead of GNU malloc and ralloc. nt/inc/sys/mman.h: New file. nt/INSTALL: Update for the new build requirements. etc/NEWS: Mention build changes on MS-Windows. configure.ac (C_HEAP_SWITCH) define for different values of dumped heap size depending on 32/64bits arch on Windows. Don't check for pthreads.h on MinGW32/64, it gets in the way. Use mmap(2) for buffers and system malloc for MinGW32/64.
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@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
Use './configure PKG_CONFIG=/full/name/of/pkg-config' if you need to.
+---
+** Building Emacs for MS-Windows requires at least Windows XP
+or Windows Server 2003. The built binaries still run on all versions
+of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
+
* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.5