I've built an installable package of mew-1.93b38, mewencode needed separately. I made one initial patch to the mew source: --- mew-xemacs.el~ Fri May 1 02:52:25 1998 +++ mew-xemacs.el Sun Jun 21 15:16:45 1998 ＠＠ -12,7 +12,8 ＠＠ ;; Common ;; -(defvar mew-icon-directory nil) +(defvar mew-icon-directory (if (fboundp 'locate-data-directory) + (locate-data-directory "mew"))) (defvar mew-icon-separate (toolbar-make-button-list package-get-base entry: (mew (standards-version 1.0 version "1.0" author-version "1.93b38" date "1998-06-21" build-date "1998-06-21" maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt;&quot; distribution contrib priority low category "comm" dump nil description "Messaging in an Emacs World." filename "mew-1.0-pkg.tar.gz" md5sum "be366b8dd9495ecb7b3b6a7a46563faa" size 441775 provides (mew) requires (mew) type regular ))