Re: image display in MinGW build?

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Eli, thanks for your help...

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
>> Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 20:58:58 -0400
>> 
>> I've been building emacs with MinGW, having installed all the
>> necessary image libraries.  configure.bat seems to be satisfied that
>> they're there.  However, when I run emacs, I don't see most of the
>> nice image behaviors I expect.  I am seeing picons in Gnus, which is
>> certainly a step, but I can't view .png files, for example.  Toggling
>> image mode on them has no effect.  Can anyone offer a clue as to how
>> to make this work?
>
> Please tell where you downloaded the image libraries, 

I used installers to do it, some time ago, but I see, e.g. libpng.dll
in c:/tools/mingw/bin

...
> Also, make sure the image libraries are installed somewhere along
> PATH.

I tried setting PATH in a command shell to start with
c:/tools/mingw/bin, to no avail.  But I must've done something wrong
because I just tried again... and it worked!  Happy, happy, joy, joy.

Thanks again.
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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