Setup Emacs with PDF Tools and Xwidgets web browser on Windows
Table of Contents
Installation instructions:
Prerequisite
- Download
Cywing
setup from Cygwin's Install page. - If you want only the PDF reader, you can install the Emacs shipped by Cygwin. However, if you also want the web browser, then you need to compile your own Emacs 25 from source.
With PDF reader
DEMO (Notice how I press some text in PDF file and Latex buffer jumps to corresponding automatically).
First, don’t use MELPA; you must install pdf-tools manually from this repository. Then, you need to install Cygwin. The following dependencies are needed:
If you don't plan to use Xwidget browser, just install Emacs from Cygwin:
- emacs-w32 (Editors category)
Then install the tool chain for PDF Tools:
- make (Devel category)
- gcc-core (Devel category)
- gcc-g++ (Devel category)
- autoconf (Devel category)
- automake (Devel category)
- perl (Perl category)
Then install Poppler development library:
- libpoppler-devel (Lib category)
- libpoppler-glib-devel (Lib category)
Just type the dependency name above and click to choose. For example, enter libpoppler-devel into the search box.
After all dependencies installed, clone pdf-tools
:
git clone https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
Then, go into pdf-tools
directory and build it:
make
When the compilation is done, from your Cygwin Terminal, copy
the file server/epdfinfo.exe
into /usr/bin/
:
cp server/epdfinfo.exe /usr/bin/
Then, also within Cygwin, run emacs command. Within Emacs, run the Emacs command:
M-x package-install-file
- Press
RET
- Select pdf-tools-${VERSION}.tar RET (the tar file is in your repository).
Finally, run pdf-tools-install and enjoy. Here is the configuration you can put in your init file:
(pdf-tools-install) (setq pdf-info-epdfinfo-program "/usr/bin/epdfinfo.exe")
With Xwidgets browser
Development libraries for building Emacs that supports Xwidgets:
- libgif-devel (Graphics category)
- libtiff-devel (Lib category)
- libjpeg-devel (Devel category)
- libxpm-devel (Devel category)
- libgnutls-devel (Devel category)
- libpng-devel (Devel category)
- libncurses-devel (Lib category)
- libgtk3-drivel (Lib category)
- libwebkitgtk3.0-devel (Lib category)
Then, install X11 server for displaying Emacs:
- xorg-server (X11 category)
- xinit (X11 category)
Then, open Cygwin terminal and compile Emacs:
./configure --with-xwidgets make make install
Finally, set your display:
echo "export DISPLAY=:0.0" >> .bash_profile
Then, from your Start Menu, open the X server:
Then, run your compiled Emacs 25 from Cygwin terminal:
emacs