From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:52:18 +0000 Message-ID: <87egbj4sbh.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457535761 13803 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 15:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:02:41 +0000 (UTC) To: 22959@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 16:02:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adfcy-0004xK-VZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:02:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adfco-0005lt-Gv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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The practical upshot of this is that after building and installing Emacs according to the instructions, Emacs cannot be launched from the Windows explorer -- it can be run from msys2 which has the path set up correctly. A binary release will, therefore, fail. Using the dependency walker shows the dependency is directly from Emacs, and it appears to have come from a change in ming-w64, as reported here. https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/31213279/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748353 This affects emacs-25, master and, indeed, emacs-24 built using the current tool chain.