Re: on how to install gnutls dlls on windows

[Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> If I may, I still have one question.  When I look at the dependencies of
>> emacs.exe, I don't see, for instance, LIBGNUTLS-30.DLL.  In fact, I only
>> see core Windows libraries.
>>
>> Doesn't emacs.exe depend on LIBGNUTLS-30.DLL?
>
> Emacs loads certain dlls at runtime, only when you use a feature that
> requires them.

Hm, I thought all DLLs were equivalent to UNIX shared objects.  But I
guess DLL means both shared object and those archives whose names always
end in ``.a'' as in ``mylib.a'' to be linked against at link-time.

> Dependency Walker, by default, only shows dlls that were required at
> link-time (when the Emacs executable was created) although it also has a
> method for running an application and watching the dlls that it opens at
> runtime.
>
> Please note that Dependency Walker might be problematic on 64 bit
> applications.

What sort of problems does it have, if I may ask?  I'd hate to spend
hours trying to do something it doesn't do.

> Process Explorer displays all running processes and the dlls that they
> are using (among other information).

Indeed.  I discovered that yesterday.  I've been studying such tools.

Thank you!