From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:39:46 +0000 Message-ID: <47AF6F22.5000409@gnu.org> References: <873asf5404.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47A11D80.4050507@gnu.org> <000701c86c1b$2a88e2f0$2958908d@us.oracle.com> <87abm87ei9.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202679616 24942 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2008 21:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ralf Angeli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 22:40:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOJug-0005DU-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:40:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOJuC-00034V-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOJu5-00031N-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOJu5-000308-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOJu5-0002zj-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOJu1-0004c5-Dz; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:39:57 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 3854975/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAE7+rkdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIpiM X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 10 Feb 2008 21:39:49 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <87abm87ei9.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88670 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli wrote: > You can check out how I did that by looking at > . > There is a Makefile included in the ZIP archive below `emacs+auctex' > which does the assembly of the whole package and copies the libraries to > Emacs' `bin' directory in course of that. > Can the libraries be built from the source that is included? Does it require proprietary tools (ie MSVC)? Are the image libraries old versions that are full of known security vulnerabilities? I don't think people cheering from the sidelines appreciate what a minefield the image libraries on Windows are.