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Re: Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP
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Uwe Siart |
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Re: Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP |
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Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:05:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Emacs continues to support XP, I use it that way all the time. I'm
> guessing that you are using precompiled binaries from some site, and
> those binaries were linked against system libraries which require
> functions not present in the C runtime on XP. (If these are official
> GNU binaries, then it's unfortunate we provide such binaries. In that
> case, please file a bug report using report-emacs-bug.)
The latest Emacs 27 snapshot build from alpha.gnu.org works again on
Windows XP. Thanks for restoring this! It helps a lot.
--
Uwe