GnuWin32 ​

https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

GnuWin32 provides precompiled native Windows ports of a wide selection of Free software and libraries. Unfortunately, the ports are outdated. Tools available here that are useful for Emacs include:

  • Arc - used by archive-mode to edit .arc files.
  • Bzip2 - used by Emacs to automatically decompress .bz2 files.
  • CompFace - used by gnus to display XFace headers in messages.
  • CoreUtils - GNU file, shell and text utilities (also in MSYS)
  • DiffUtils - for ediff and producing patches
  • FindUtils - for grep-find and other file searches.
  • GifLib - library to support GIF images.
  • Grep - for searching through files with grep.
  • Gzip - used by Emacs to automatically decompress .gz files.
  • Jpeg - library to support JPEG images (also in GTK+).
  • Lha - used by archive-mode to edit .lzh files.
  • LibPng - library to support PNG images (also in GTK+).
  • LibTiff - library to support TIFF images (also in GTK+).
  • Make - used by compile for building projects (also in MinGW)
  • OpenSSL - used by gnus to talk to servers over SSL.
  • Patch - used by ediff-patch-file and others to apply patches.
  • Tar - used by tar-mode to edit tar files.
  • TexInfo - used to build Emacs’s manuals.
  • Unzip - used by archive-mode for extracting zip files.
  • Xpm - library to support XPM images (bundled with Emacs binaries)
  • Zip - used by archive-mode for editing zip files.
  • Zlib - required by LibPng (also in GTK+).