I've updated tarballs of openldap, Berkeley db, nas, libpng, bzip2, im, mew, and added a tarball for ncurses to ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux (the latest level of software). Here is the updated contents of the README at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux: This directory contains programs that are not included in the XEmacs distribution, but which are either used by various packages that are in the distribution or are enhancements which can be compiled into XEmacs. Where available, ftp sites, web home pages, and configure flags (although you should never have to specify library configure flags since they are autodetected) are indicated below. Most of the files listed below contain the sources to these programs, and you will have to build them yourself. However, some binaries are available for the Win32 (i.e. native Windows 9x/NT), Cygwin and MinGW platforms. This file last updated 2001-02-14. Windows Binaries: ----------------- The win32/ directory contains binaries for patch, ssh, cvs, and common graphics libraries needed for building XEmacs. Note that most of these are self-extracting executables. Cygwin Binaries: ---------------- The cygwin/ directory contains critical tools (most of the standard Unix utilities missing from the standard Cygwin distribution), as well as binaries of the X11 libraries. For more information, see http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/ MinGW Binaries: --------------- The mingw/ directory contains binaries for the graphics libraries (Xpm, png+zlib, jpeg, tiff, compface -- remember that gif support is built in) needed for building XEmacs using the MinGW compiler. (MinGW is a version of GCC that uses native Microsoft DLL's instead of requiring a POSIX-emulation DLL, as Cygwin does.) For more information on MinGW, see http://www.mingw.org/ Databases: ---------- These DBM implementations are supported by XEmacs: native dbm (provided by OS), GDBM, and Berkeley DB version 1, 2 and 3. GDBM is the GNU DBM library, compatible with the Unix dbm library. gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html configure flag: --with-database=gnudbm Berkeley DB is provided by Sleepycat Software. db-2.7.7.tar.gz db-3.2.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.sleepycat.com/pub http://www.sleepycat.com/ configure flag: --with-database=berkdb OpenLDAP is an implementation of the LDAP X.500 Directory protocol. openldap-2.0.7.tgz ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release http://www.openldap.org/ configure flag: --with-ldap Image Format Libraries: ----------------------- `compface' is an old library for viewing X-Faces in messages. It is no longer being maintained, but still works. compface.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/compface/ configure flag: --with-xface The JPEG image format library jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/ http://www.ijg.org/ configure flag: --with-jpeg The TIFF image format library tiff-v3.4-tar.gz ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/ configure flag: --with-tiff The XPM image format library xpm-3.4k.tar.gz ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm/ http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html configure flag: --with-xpm The PNG image format library libpng-1.0.9.tar.gz ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/ http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ configure flag: --with-png The ZLIB compression library is used by the PNG library. zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ Other Multimedia: ----------------- Network Audio System (NAS) is a client-server sound library for X. nas-1.4.1.src.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/audio/nas/ http://radscan.com/nas.html configure flag: --with-nas Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD) is yet another sound system. esound-0.2.8.tar.gz http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html Netpbm is a collection of programs that XEmacs might use at runtime. netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ Xaw3d is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the Athena widget library that `looks cooler'. Xaw3-1.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/ Internationalization: --------------------- Canna is a Japanese language input method. Canna has not been updated since 1996. Canna32p2.tar.gz Canna35b2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nec.co.jp/pub/Canna/ configure flag: --with-canna Wnn is a multi-language mule input method. Wnn4 is the free version, while Wnn6 is the commercial version. Wnn4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.wg.omron.co.jp/pub/Wnn/ (free wnn - appears to be dead) ftp://ftp.omronsoft.co.jp/pub/Wnn6/ (commercial version) configure flag: --with-wnn Mew is a multi-lingual mailreader. mew-1.94.2.tar.gz im-140.tar.gz (used by mew) http://www.mew.org/ ftp://ftp.Mew.org/pub/Mew/ kterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator with special support for Asian languages with large character sets. ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ ispell is a spelling checker with support for multiple languages. ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ispell http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html Miscellaneous: -------------- ncurses looks like (in 2001) it is becoming the standard free software curses library. http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.html ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ Developer Tools: ---------------- bzip2 is a compressor that compresses much better than gzip. bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/ texi2html is a script that converts Texinfo pages to HTML. This release is version 1.58 texi2html.tar.gz The texi2html package is undergoing a change of ownership during 1999. Current home page: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html/ Former home page: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html/ Gnats is a bug tracking system. gnats-3.113.tar.gz cern_wwwgnats_v2.0-beta.tar.gz (WWW front end to Gnats) http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gnats/ Use autoconf to generate `configure' from `configure.in'. autoconf-2.13.tar.gz http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/autoconf/ Use the `applypatch' program from the makepatch package to apply patches to upgrade from one beta release to another. Use this if you have a slow or expensive connection to the Net. makepatch-2.00_03.tar.gz ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/JV http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/