Re: [Msys2-users] About DLLs needed by Emacs (W64)

[Phillip Lord]

It's not a worry. Am happy to get feedback and you've been trying these
things out. Getting windows binary testers can be a limiting factor
here.

Phil

Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:

> And sorry if my answer seems rude because I know you did an amazing job
> for packaging this stuff.  But there always will be a problem with
> overlapping packages
> which is difficult to solve.
>
> Fabrice
>
> 2017-11-23 8:15 GMT+01:00 Fabrice Popineau <
> address@hidden>:
>
>>
>>
>> 2017-11-23 0:06 GMT+01:00 Phillip Lord <address@hidden>:
>>
>>> Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> > 2017-11-20 18:31 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>>> >> But in general, your point is valid: various optional libraries need
>>> >> support
>>> >> files to work properly.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Given the numerous dependencies, and as long as msys2/mingw64 is
>>> > concerned, it is so much easier to install msys2 and then request
>>> > emacs from pacman than to package a standalone emacs. Lots of elisp
>>> > packages may require other mingw64 packages : a spell checker, git,
>>> > etc.  It is easy to install them with pacman. The user will have a
>>> > much harder time with a standalone emacs. If you want a full emacs
>>> > experience, you need a full unix-like environment.
>>>
>>>
>>> The new "with-deps" build and installer of Emacs actually packages quite
>>> a bit of msys2/mingw64 including, for example, a python
>>> installation.
>>>
>>
>> This is precisely the kind of drifting I hate.
>> When on Windows I don't want to use the msys2 python because it doesn't
>> play so well.
>> I vastly prefer Anaconda (On GNU/Linux too btw)
>> If you start to package Python with emacs, you'll end up packaging the
>> whole MSys2.
>> At least that should be made optional.
>>
>> One nasty thing about DLLs. Anaconda ships with libpng.dll and others
>> which are
>> dynamically loaded by emacs. Reason why in my own copy of Emacs, I have
>> restricted
>> the path where dlls are looked for to the emacs binary directory.
>>
>> Fabrice
>>