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

[Fabrice P. <fab...@ce...>]

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 <
fab...@ce...>:

>
>
> 2017-11-23 0:06 GMT+01:00 Phillip Lord <phi...@ru...>:
>
>> Fabrice Popineau <fab...@ce...> writes:
>>
>> > 2017-11-20 18:31 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...>:
>> >> 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
>



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