Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  akrl@sdf.org
> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:52:54 +0000
> 
> If you invoke runemacs.exe it picks up its environment from the mingw64
> shell. That means anything installed on the local machine to the
> /mingw64, any dlls, anything will be available to Emacs, even if they
> are not present in the bundle.
> 
> If you invoke runemacs.exe by clicking on it in explorer, then it only
> looks for DLLs in the same directory (and what ever windows normally
> does I guess).
> 
> So, I have the right dependencies installed on my build machine, but
> haven't packaged them up correctly.

The DLLs should be on PATH.  It is not enough to have them in the same
directory as the executable.

> >> I've tried putting as.exe manually into the package but that isn't
> >> enough. as.exe doesn't seem to have any dll dependencies itself.
> >
> > Is as.exe on PATH?  If not, where is it?
> 
> Not in my package at the moment.

I suggest to put as.exe on PATH.