From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't start interactively Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 19:59:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83sgsz25q5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="219327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 19:00:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVIyt-000usi-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 19:00:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVIys-0003N0-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 13:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45439) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVIyW-0003LU-SA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 12:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40187) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVIyV-0003N1-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 12:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1119 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hVIyM-0000m5-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 12:59:44 -0400 In-reply-to: (Joe_Trivers@amat.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120651 Archived-At: [Please reply to the list or Reply to All, so that everybody could see your responses.] > From: > Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 02:13:08 +0000 > > Hi Eli, > Thank you for your reply. > > > What if you type "emacs-26.1\bin\emacs -Q", does that also exit > > immediately? > > emacs -Q also exits immediately. I'm sure I tried that. I'm not where the machine is now so I can't try it today. > > > How did you unpack the zip files, exactly? > > I used Windows 10 native zip support. Right-click on the zip file icon, pick Unpack All, give it a directory name, and it unpacks all the files. Specifically, I gave it "c:\users\\Downloads\emacs-26.1" and it created directories bin, lib, and so on under that one. > > I failed to mention that I copied the emacs-26.1.exe from the laptop where emacs works, using ftp binary to an HP-UX system and then ftp binary from there to the new machine. Running that file exited immediately, too. The file size of the .exe was identical on the two machines: 124,661,533 bytes. I suspect some incompatible DLLs you have on your system. Please download the Dependency Walker from here: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ and use it to show what DLLs other than those which came with the Emacs zip files you installed Emacs binds to on your system. Incompatible DLLs should be shown in red, but in general I'd suspect any DLL that didn't come with Windows which is found outside the Emacs installation tree. Please note that there are 2 kinds of executables on the GNU FTP site: the 32-bit and the 64-bit. Depending on which one you installed (x86_64 is a 64-bit build), you will need a corresponding version of the Dependency Walker and a corresponding version of the dependency DLLs from the FTP site.