Re: png in emacs 25 mingw64

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> Question; exactly which path is searched for DLLs? I have two:
>
> PATH from the parent process
>
> exec-path after editing in ~/.emacs
>
> The png image is opened well after ~/.emacs is processed, so does it
> look on the edited exec-path for the dll?
>
> Or does the dll search take place during startup, in which case it is
> the parent PATH (or exec-path before editing in ~/.emacs).

Apparently the dll is searched for on the parent process PATH; moving
mingw64/bin earlier in the parent process PATH (without changing the
editing in ~/.emacs) fixes the PNG problem for me.

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-- Stephe