From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs binaries for Windows Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:21:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83bn0jfljx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86mvk9jj6i.fsf@gmail.com> <83wpjcdd8w.fsf@gnu.org> <86k2fc7m7x.fsf@gmail.com> <83vaywd4vi.fsf@gnu.org> <86zio71luu.fsf@gmail.com> <83bn0ncu0b.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2f9um10.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83d1l0c0rs.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgzn4th3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83h9abft83.fsf@gnu.org> <86mvk31kqr.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471972918 12076 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2016 17:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Arash Esbati Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 19:21:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOZ-0002lD-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOW-0006NV-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOM-0006N9-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOH-0005Kd-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOH-0005KC-CS; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1385 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bcFOD-0007Or-Sv; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <86mvk31kqr.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Arash Esbati on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:02:52 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206767 Archived-At: > From: Arash Esbati > Cc: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord), emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:02:52 +0200 > > I think another issue would be making every single archive > self-contained then. Yes, the dependency DLLs should be in every archive. But if they are identical, there's no problem for the users. > The way I understand it many (all?) DLLs rely on > `libgcc_s_seh-1.dll'. So this one must be packed in every archive. > I think your ezwinports are built this way. Actually, I normally go to great lengths to avoid the runtime dependency on the libgcc DLL. For two reasons: (a) people who have GCC installed will have that DLL, but probably a different version of it; and (b) more importantly, the GPL mandates that distributing the libgcc DLL requires to have the entire sources of GCC available from the same site, and those sources are huge. > For the start, I think I go with Phil: Pack the DLLs into one archive > and tell users to unpack them into the directory where emacs.exe resides > and be done with it. This procedure can be changed later, if necessary. It's up to whoever does the job, I was just explaining my personal views.