Re: Precompiled Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:32:32 +0100
> From: Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
> 
> Johan Andersson wrote:
> 
> > Well, the thing is that I don't want to install it there. I guess it's not
> > possible to compile Emacs, archive it, move to another machine and there
> > "make install" to the desired prefix?
> 
> Hm.  On Windows, you can just unpack the zip file in any directory and
> run it from there.  So there must be code in Emacs that knows to find
> the other directories based on where you unzipped the zip file.

That code is Windows-specific, it isn't compiled on other platforms.