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- From: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
- To: covici AT ccs.covici.com
- Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
- Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 13:26:33 -0400
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 AT emacspeak.net> 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 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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- [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, covici, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, Tim Cross, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, covici, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, Robert Melton, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, covici, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, Robert Melton, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, covici, 05/31/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get emacspeak working on windows 11, Tim Cross, 05/31/2025
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