Re: installing updating Org on other platform

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Adam <ahcnz@ihug.co.nz> writes:

> If anyone is using Org-mode with Gnu Emacs on Win XP, then I would be grateful 
> for their comments. 
>
> Have just updated to Org version 6.36c.    While Org appears to work normally, 
> and version 6.36c is reported evaluating  org-version     And the recent 
> Footnotes sorting feature works. But I fear the update or installation is 
> somehow not proper. 
>
> My only suspicions for this are;  that publishing to HTML seems problematic, 
> and that there are no  .elc  files appearing where the org.el files are 
> located. 
>
> To install, I downloaded the 6.36c zip, and copied all and only the 
> /lisp/*.el  files into the folder ~/Emacs/Lisp/org. 
>
> I notice that in  .emacs  the entry 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/emacs/lisp/org") 
>
> or as I first had it,
> (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/emacs/org-6.36c")
>
> neither have any effect.   It seems Emacs will find Org in ~/emacs/lisp/org no 
> matter what.  Only  (require 'org)  is present in my  .emacs  and then 
> some Org settings. 
>
> Any comments appreciated. 

Hi Adam,

At work I run org-mode from a git repository on Windows XP.  I never
compile my org-mode files anymore.

My git repository lives in ~/git/org-mode/ with the .el files in
~/git/org-mode/lisp

I have the following setup in my ~/.emacs

,----[ .emacs ]
| (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/git/org-mode/lisp"))
| (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
| (require 'org-install)
`----

Make sure your org-mode files are found first in your load-path so that
you load the version you want and not some other version provided by
Emacs.  Your load-path should point to the directory your .el files are
in.

I would just unzip the entire 6.36c zip file without moving anything
from their default locations and point your load-path at the lisp
subdirectory.

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Org-mode version 6.36trans (release_6.36.630.gbca27)

HTH,
Bernt