Native windows gnuclient/winclient setup kit

[Vin Shelton]

On 9/24/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> I have one more issue to report:
>
> When xemacs.exe is not already running when
>
> gnuclientw cannot start XEmacs, if not yet running, I get:
>
> ---------------------------
> c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b28\i586-pc-win32\gnuclientw.exe
> ---------------------------
> Could not start runemacs
> ---------------------------
> OK
> ---------------------------
>
> I use Firefox Add-on ViewSourceWith 0.0.9.1 with following setting:
>
> Editor path: c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b28\i586-pc-win32\gnuclientw.exe
>

The README.NT file that comes with the gnuserve_beta.zip claims

5) gnuclientw is exactly the same as gnuclient except that it defaults
   to topping the Emacs window.  It is also compiled as a Windows
   application, this means that it doesn't flash up a console window
   when run.


So, it sounds to me that gnuclientw is trying to connect to a running
XEmacs server and it can't find one.  When that fails, it tries to
invoke XEmacs using the command runemacs.  Maybe if you created a
script called runemacs that started XEmacs, all would be well.

BTW, I found another 21.5-related crash (actually, it's a different
manifestation of the same defect I report this morning), so I worked
around this in my latest setup kit, posted this afternoon, ET.

  - Vin


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