Arash Esbati writes: >> Adding Stefan to Cc. > > Thanks, it seems the issue is more related to package itself. Following-up myself, I think I found the issue. Emacs writes ^M to -autoloads.el. If I remove them manually, Emacs starts without any errors. I'm attaching the one for debbugs for your reference. I don't see this behavior with my older packages installed. They also have this in the local variables: ;; coding: utf-8 Maybe the change to ;; coding: utf-8-unix on Windows is the issue? Best, Arash