[AUCTeX] Re: Failure to install AUCTeX under Windows XT

[David Kastrup]

"Richard Upward" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have used AUCTeX under Windows 98/2000 successfully for several
> years and it is a great package.  But I am struggling to install
> AUCTeX 11.55 under Emacs 21.3 on my new Windows XP machine.  I think
> perhaps the installation procedure has become more complicated?
>
> I have installed Emacs and the MSYS program (successfully, I think).
> I have downloaded and unpacked the auctex-11.53 files to the c:/temp
> directory.
>
> I then typed this in the MSYS shell:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix="c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3"
> --with-emacs="c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe"

Uh, runemacs.exe is some sort of
start-up-on-window-system--if-not-there-already-and-hide-the-command-line
stuff of executable.

For compiling AUCTeX, you'd rather need the actual command line
capable executable which is called just "emacs.exe".

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum