Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas(a)home.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; spake thusly: >> Hmmh, any clues? 21.2b10 built just fine, now this... >> >> <lines deleted by Adrian> >> Loading loaddefs.el... >> Loading dumped-lisp.el... >> Loading site-load.el... >> >> Bootstrapping from temacs...*** Error in XEmacs initialization >> (error "Can't add consoles in -batch mode") >> *** Backtrace >> really-early-error-handler((error "Can't add consoles in -batch mode")) >> *** Killing XEmacs >> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '..\src\temacs.exe' : return code '0xffffffff' >> Stop. >> >> Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Mon Mar 01 18:04:08 > Extracting the xemacs-21.2.11-elc.tar.gz into the source tree fixes > that. Dunno if this is the way it should be. If it is, the error > messages could be more specific I think. It sounds like a bug that causes you not to be able to run temacs. Try removing a single .elc, like lisp/subr.elc, and rebuilding. You should get the same error. Is `make run-temacs' implemented on the MS Windows port?