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Emacs machines list
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Copyright (C) 1989-1990, 1992-1993, 1998, 2001-2024 Free Software
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Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
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Information about older releases, and platforms that are no longer
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supported, has been removed. Consult older versions of this file if
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you are interested in this information.
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The 'configure' script uses the configuration name, and the results of
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testing the system, to decide which options to use in src/config.h and
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elsewhere (eg Makefiles).
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If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
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file, and edit the 'configure.ac' source as needed.
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Some obsolete platforms are unsupported beginning with Emacs 23.1. See
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the list at the end of this file.
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* Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
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** GNU/Linux
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Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
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enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
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call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
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It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
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Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
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project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
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complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
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develop whatever system components were not available as freely
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redistributable software from some other source.
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The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
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these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
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spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
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people to write more free software. For more information, see
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<https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html>.
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*** 64-bit GNU/Linux
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No special procedures should be needed to build a 64-bit Emacs on a
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64-bit GNU/Linux system. To build a 32-bit Emacs, first ensure that
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the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include files are
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installed. Then use:
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./configure CC='gcc -m32' --build=i386-linux-gnu \
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--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
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(using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
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*** IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
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As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this system.
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*** SuperH (sh[34]*-*-linux-gnu)
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Emacs 23.0.60 was reported to work on GNU/Linux (October 2008).
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This was tested on a little-endian sh4 system (cpu type SH7751R) running
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Gentoo Linux 2008.0.
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** macOS
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Mac OS X 10.6 or newer. Both AArch64 (Arm) and x86-64 systems are
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supported, but PowerPC is not supported. For installation
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instructions see the file nextstep/INSTALL.
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** Microsoft Windows
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For installation instructions see the file nt/INSTALL.
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** MS-DOS
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For installation instructions see the file msdos/INSTALL.
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See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual for information about using
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Emacs on MS-DOS.
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** Solaris
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On Solaris it is also possible to use either GCC or Oracle Developer
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Studio to build Emacs, by pointing ./configure to the right compiler:
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./configure # Defaults to 'gcc' if available.
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./configure CC='cc' # Oracle Developer Studio
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On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use Oracle Developer Studio.
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Make sure that /usr/ccs/bin and the Oracle Developer Studio bin
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directory (e.g., /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin) are in your PATH
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before /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same
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requirement on Solaris.) With this compiler, use 'cc -E' as the
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preprocessor. If this inserts extra whitespace into its output (see
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the PROBLEMS file), add the option '-Xs'.
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To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size) on a
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Solaris system that defaults to 32-bit executables, specify the -m64
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compiler option. For example:
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./configure CC='gcc -m64' # GCC
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./configure CC='cc -m64' # Oracle Developer Studio
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** Haiku
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On 32-bit Haiku it is required that the newer GCC 8 be used, instead
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of the legacy GCC 2 used by default. This can be achieved by
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invoking configure inside a shell launched by the 'setarch' program
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invoked as 'setarch x86'.
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When building with packages discovered through pkg-config, such as
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libpng, on a GCC 2/GCC 8 hybrid system, simply evaluating 'setarch
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x86' is insufficient to ensure that all required libraries are found
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at their correct locations. To avoid this problem, set the
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environment variable 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' to the GCC 8 pkg-config
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directory at '/system/develop/lib/x86/pkgconfig/' before configuring
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Emacs.
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If GCC complains about not being able to resolve symbols such as
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"BHandler::LockLooper", you are almost certainly experiencing this
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problem.
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Haiku running on non-x86 systems has not been tested. It is
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anticipated that Haiku running on big-endian systems will experience
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problems when Emacs is built with Haiku windowing support, but there
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doesn't seem to be any reliable way to get Haiku running on a
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big-endian system at present.
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The earliest release of Haiku that will successfully compile Emacs
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is R1/Beta2. For windowing support, R1/Beta3 or later is required.
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** Android
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Emacs is known to run on all Android versions from 2.2 onwards, on
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Linux kernel 2.26.29 or later.
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Android 2.2 has only been tested on ARM. mips64 has not been
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tested, but builds. With these exceptions, Emacs is known to run on
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all supported versions of Android on all supported machines: arm,
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armv7, arm64, x86, x86_64, and mips.
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See the file java/INSTALL for detailed installation instructions.
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It is also possible to build Emacs for Android systems without using
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GUI capabilities provided by the Android port. We do not know
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exactly which configurations this works on, but the installation
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instructions for such a build should be the same as for any Unix
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system. (This does in turn imply that such a build must be carried
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out on an Android device itself utilizing development tools provided
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by third party package repositories.)
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* Obsolete platforms
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Support for many obsolete platforms was removed in Emacs 23.1.
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If for some reason you encounter an ancient machine where current
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Emacs does not compile, try an older release like Emacs 22.3.
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Local variables:
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mode: outline
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fill-prefix: " "
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End:
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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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