11.5 GnuWin32 ¶
https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
GnuWin32 provides precompiled native Windows ports of a wide selection
of Free software and libraries. Unfortunately, the ports are
outdated. Tools available here that are useful for Emacs include:
- Arc - used by
archive-mode to edit .arc files.
- Bzip2 - used by Emacs to automatically decompress .bz2 files.
- CompFace - used by
gnus to display XFace headers in messages.
- CoreUtils - GNU file, shell and text utilities (also in MSYS)
- DiffUtils - for
ediff and producing patches
- FindUtils - for
grep-find and other file searches.
- GifLib - library to support GIF images.
- Grep - for searching through files with
grep.
- Gzip - used by Emacs to automatically decompress .gz files.
- Jpeg - library to support JPEG images (also in GTK+).
- Lha - used by
archive-mode to edit .lzh files.
- LibPng - library to support PNG images (also in GTK+).
- LibTiff - library to support TIFF images (also in GTK+).
- Make - used by
compile for building projects (also in MinGW)
- OpenSSL - used by
gnus to talk to servers over SSL.
- Patch - used by
ediff-patch-file and others to apply patches.
- Tar - used by
tar-mode to edit tar files.
- TexInfo - used to build Emacs’ manuals.
- Unzip - used by
archive-mode for extracting zip files.
- Xpm - library to support XPM images (bundled with Emacs binaries)
- Zip - used by
archive-mode for editing zip files.
- Zlib - required by LibPng (also in GTK+).