well, the official windows binary is built without debug information so i don't know if i could get any useful info. 2014-09-12 15:10 GMT-05:00 Eli Zaretskii : > > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:54:07 -0500 > > From: Mario Valencia > > > > running emacs -Q on windows 8 > > tried (play-sound '(sound :file "c:/users/mario/desktop/whatever.wav")) > > in *scratch* buffer. > > if the file exists, it works fine. if the file does not exist, emacs > crashes. > > I cannot reproduce this (but I don't have access to Windows 8). The > latest pretest version of 24.4 signals an error saying > > This Emacs binary lacks sound support > > Emacs 24.3 instead displays an error message about failed sound > command and asks to verify that the file exists. > > Can show the C-level backtrace from the crash, by running Emacs under > a debugger? >