Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11

[Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By complete happenstance I needed to install Windows this week to do some development and will likely pickup my work on Sharpwin as it will be my daily driver for a bit. 

> On May 31, 2025, at 01:42, covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Well, Robert Melton developed sharpwin, and although it has some
> problems, on Windows 10 it works pretty well.  But I cannot even start
> making emacspeak on Windows 11 and I don't remember whether I
> downloaded a pre built directory on Windows 10, but it would be nice
> if I could get this to work.  Sharpwin was the speech server.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 May 2025 22:10:54 -0400,
> Tim Cross wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> As far as I am aware there is no 'official' windows speech server for
>> emacspeak. I do redcall seeing posts on the list from someone who was
>> implementing one, but I'm not sure what the status is at this point. It
>> is likely you could get emacspeak to run under WSL, but in general, the
>> main platforms are Linux and macOS.
>> 
>> "covici" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi.  So, I have installed emacs on my windows 11 box which I am just
>>> setting up.  I do have emacs on it -- installed via chocolatey and now
>>> I am trying to get emacspeak to work.
>>> 
>>> I did a git clone to the windows box and I have the emacspeak folder.
>>> 
>>> Now when I try to do the make config, I get the following output:
>>> 
>>> make : process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, chmod 755 *.pl, ...) failed.
>>> At line:1 char:1
>>> + make config 2>&1 >temp.txt
>>> + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (process_begin: ...l, ...) failed.:String) [], RemoteException
>>>    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
>>> 
>>> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:51: config] Error 2
>>> make: *** [Makefile:82: config] Error 2
>>> 
>>> Now, this seems to come from the Makefile in  the etc directory, if I
>>> comment this out, however emacspeak does not compile properly.
>>> 
>>> So, how to get this to work -- I want to use the sharpwin for my tts
>>> as well.
>>> 
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