Copyright (C) 2001-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Precompiled Distributions of Emacs for Windows Jan 14, 2021 This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on Windows IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER ======================== If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance, if you put the compiled file from this directory on an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of the SAME version. Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the old binaries. Latest Versions ================ - Emacs 31.1_1 - no gccjit/native compilation, optimized at -O2) - Emacs 31.1 - full AOT compilation, AV flags reported on MINGW4 set Note: research into anti-virus findings on the MINGW64 set have not been able to demsontrate any specific concerns to meanion so far. We welcome discussion on the appoprite debbug or emacs-devel thread. Windows Binaries ================ Currently, we provide three different binary packages for Emacs, which are: emacs-$VERSION-installer.exe Contains Emacs with dependencies as an installer package. Mostly, this is the best one to install. emacs-$VERSION.zip Contains Emacs with dependencies. This contains the same files as the installer but as a zip file which some users may prefer. emacs-$VERSION-nodeps.zip Contains Emacs without any dependencies. This may be useful if you wish to install where the dependencies are already available, or if you want the small possible Emacs. In addition, we provide the following files which will not be useful for most end-users. emacs-$VERSION-deps.zip The dependencies. Unzipping this file on top of emacs-$VERSION-no-deps.zip should result in the same install as emacs-$VERSION.zip. emacs-$VERSION-deps-mingw-w64-src.zip The source for the dependencies. Source for Emacs itself is available in the main distribution tarball. These dependencies were produced from an updated msys2 at the point of the first pre-test. It is not intended that these will be updated after that point. Source for Emacs itself is found in the directory above. Emacs binaries are normally built using MSYS2/MINGW64 and include a full "Ahead of Time" (AOT) build of provided elisp. Other binaries for a given version of Emacs, if any, that have been created from atypical compilation environments or built using alternative (e.g. "noaot") settings may include architecture (e.g. "i668") and or other "tags" following the version identifier (for example: emacs-X.Y.Z-i686-notreesitter-nognutls.zip). Snapshots ========= We also distribute "snapshots" of Emacs built at points throughout the development cycle, for those interested in following this cycle. They are not recommended for normal users; however, they are useful for people who want to report bugs against the current master, to help in "pretesting" new release versions, and so on. The files follow the same naming convention, but also include a date (and sometimes information about their branch) or they may releate to a sepecific pretest or release candidate for an "uncut" Emacs. Emacs sources are distributed along with each dated snapshot. Sources are provided for the pretest and release candidate Emacs versions here, as for release builds, are found in the directory (or directories) above. Meta ==== You can find a copy this file, along with other programs used to build Emacs as a native windows program using the MSYS2 toolchain, within the emacs source tree, see: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/admin/nt/dist-build -rw-r--r-- 1 corwi corwi 88M Sep 16 19:54 emacs-31.1_1-UCRT64.zip 28d260d80e78420d1e43d4ac47bcdaea5edfc3f8 *emacs-31.1_1-UCRT64.zip -rwxr-xr-x 1 corwi corwi 55M Sep 16 19:52 emacs-31.1_1-installer-UCRT64.exe d9298bf10110f44609d51e0b6f64ae87553e93eb *emacs-31.1_1-installer-UCRT64.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 corwi corwi 56M Sep 16 16:14 emacs-31.1_1-installer.exe 798b2cfefb22aa144e9a3f62dc2287480b707dfb *emacs-31.1_1-installer.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 corwi corwi 61M Sep 16 20:03 emacs-31.1_1-nodeps-UCRT64.zip 86f440870bce0ea8513e3f89a1746f062c7d33ea *emacs-31.1_1-nodeps-UCRT64.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 corwi corwi 61M Sep 16 16:30 emacs-31.1_1-nodeps.zip 950f3fa996dcae77d63ca0aa206c7d8a8255082a *emacs-31.1_1-nodeps.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 corwi corwi 89M Sep 16 16:27 emacs-31.1_1.zip 84fdd3cc35bd47b270167ff870c99f605df76cb7 *emacs-31.1_1.zip Download My GPG Key from GNU Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/users/carlc LICENSE ====== This file is part of GNU Emacs. 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