Re: strange ezwinports issue

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:34:17 +0530
> 
> > 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?

Probably because the previous DLLs didn't depend on that incompatible
DLL which gives you trouble now.