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  • From: <covici AT ccs.covici.com>
  • To: Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "covici" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>, <covici AT ccs.covici.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11
  • Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 01:42:40 -0400
  • Organization: Covici Computer Systems

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 AT emacspeak.net> 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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