From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: strange ezwinports issue Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:34:17 +0530 Message-ID: <8737ym1cse.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87egiat9ir.fsf@gmail.com> <83vbbm6opj.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbbl1umd.fsf@gmail.com> <83si6p7cfm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441901158 21699 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 16:05:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:05:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 18:05:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1Za4M7-0004wK-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4M6-0007xq-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4Lp-0007xj-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4Lk-0006wN-7j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4Lk-0006ve-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4LO-0004DN-WF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.167.64.153 ([122.167.64.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:02 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.64.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.64.153 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130013 (Ma Gnus v0.13) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T7CNEBM2Quuw6hOv5urYk0pMeio= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107121 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 08 2015,Eli Zaretskii wrote: [snipped 11 lines] > There was no change that necessitated this. What this experiment > means is that you have a small "DLL hell" on your hands: you have an > incompatible copy of some DLL that is used by some of the ezwinports > that lives in some other directory which is closer to the beginning of > your PATH than the ezwinports' bin/ directory. So when Emacs loads, > say, libgnutls-28.dll, and looks for its dependency DLLs, it finds > that incompatible DLL first, tries to load it, which fails (due to > whatever makes it incompatible), and then the load of libgnutls-28.dll > fails because of that. > Right but this is a bit confusing. You see, the version that I was using earlier had all the DLLs under ezwinports and NOT under the Emacs bin directory. I renamed it as ezwinportsold and the downloaded one as ezwinports. At this point it stopped working. If I rename the old one back as ezwinports again, it works. Why does this work then? [snipped 14 lines] sivaram --