2. Building and Installing

2.1 I don't know how to extract the files from package.
2.2 How is the compiling environment for the source of Meadow?
2.3 Meadow doesn't start up. Why?

2.1 I don't know how to extract the files from package.

Read INSTALL.Meadow or INSTALL.Meadow.ja carefully. `tar.exe', `gzip.exe' for Windows are available from ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Windows/tools.

2.2 How is the compiling environment for the source of Meadow?

It can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6.0. It could be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x/5.0, but not sure. Please report.

Now you cannot compile Meadow with GCC, Mingw of Cygwin (yet).

2.3 Meadow doesn't start up. Why?

It seems that your Meadow is not successfully installed. Read `INSTALL.Meadow' carefully, and install again. It is frequently seen that tools like Winzip convert LF to CR+LF during unzipping.

When you succeed in install, make sure you environmental variables are correct. install.exe writes values to the registry, but if you set variables like EMACSLOADPATH in `AUTOEXEC.BAT' or so, it will be used instead of the value in the registry. To correct this, unset the environmental variable or set it to the right value.