Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 21.3 for Windows on AMD64 and Itanium

[Jason Rumney]

Dallman, John wrote:

> I asked a few weeks ago about versions of Emacs for Windows 
> that might run on Itanium and/or AMD64 Windows, because the 
> elderly version we're using here doesn't work. 
>
> I just got a chance to try building 21.3 from the source kit.
> I did this for plain x86, (rather than try to port all of Emacs
> to the weird LLP64 data model that Win64 uses) and that starts
> up and runs on both AMD64 and Itanium. The custom major mode we 
> use here doesn't work yet, but it's a step forwards. When we
> have that working, we can think about moving all the ordinary 
> Windows users up to 21.3. 
>
>  
Do the 21.3 binaries now at  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows work on 
AMD64 and Itanium, or is it neccesary to build from source on the target 
platform? This information would be useful to put in the FAQ.