Emacspeak discussion list

[Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>]

Because windows is not an officially supported platform, the build
process does not take that platform's differences into account. If you
look at the Makefile in the etc directory, you will see that the target
for the make config command is to run chmod, which does not exist on
Windows as it is a file mode specific command only available on
Linux/BSD/macOS.

The good news is that nothing in the etc directory is absolutely needed
to run emacspeak. With the exception of the speech servers themselves,
the core emacdspeak functionality is all in the 'lisp' directory.

My suggestion would be to commend out the line in the Makefile in the
etc directory associated with the config target which calls chmod and
then try make config followed by make emacspeak and see how you go.

It is possible you will run into other errors because your trying to
build on an unofficial platform. When you do, you will need to
investigate and see either how the same functionality can be replaced
with a windows equivalent or if just commenting out that step will work.

I don't know anything about the requirements for the windows speech
server, so cannot comment on that.

As you are one of the very few running Emacspeak on windows, it might be
beneficial if you document what you needed to do to get it working and
then post it to the list in case others will f8ind it useful. All
messages sent to the list are archived on the list server and are
searchable, so provided it haqs a relevant subject line, others should
be able to find it in the future and may find it useful.

<covici AT ccs.covici.com> writes:

> 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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