Re: on how to install gnutls dlls on windows

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:40:05 -0300
> From:  Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> I didn't expect the PATH to be involved here, but here's how to get it
> to work invoking it through cmd.exe:
> 
> C:\Users\x>cd \sys\emacs\bin
> 
> C:\sys\emacs\bin>set PATH=c:/sys/emacs/usr/mingw/mingw64/bin/
> 
> C:\sys\emacs\bin>echo %PATH%
> c:/sys/emacs/usr/mingw/mingw64/bin/
> 
> C:\sys\emacs\bin>emacs -Q
> 
>   *scratch* buffer: (gnutls-available-p) C-x C-e
>   Minibuffer says: (ClientHello\ Padding Key\ ...)
>   C-x C-c

This probably means some of the dependencies of the GnuTLS DLL were
not copied, and are found via PATH.

> I didn't know PATH was used to search for DLLs.

Yes, it is.  You can find the description of the full DLL search
method on the MS docs site.