ezwinports gnutls, does it work?

ezwinports gnutls, does it work?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

I recently downloaded the ezwinports of the common unix tools and most
tools seem to work as in cygwin.  However, the gnutls-cli seems to
hang connecting to gmail imap.  I had to C-g to stop the connection.
I renamed them and used the cygwin gnutls for that alone.

Has it worked for anyone?


 sivaram
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GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-18 on MARVIN

Re: ezwinports gnutls, does it work?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:01:25 +0530
> 
> I recently downloaded the ezwinports of the common unix tools and most
> tools seem to work as in cygwin.  However, the gnutls-cli seems to
> hang connecting to gmail imap.  I had to C-g to stop the connection.
> I renamed them and used the cygwin gnutls for that alone.
> 
> Has it worked for anyone?

Yes, it works, but not in the way you think.  You need to build Emacs
with GnuTLS support, or get a binary someone else built with such
support; then install the GnuTLS DLL from the ezwinports site; and
then Emacs will automatically use the GnuTLS DLL (not the gnutls-cli
program!) to support TLS connections.

The original TLS support via gnutls-cli uses signals, which doesn't
work on Windows (except in Cygwin).  So Emacs on Windows now uses the
GnuTLS library directly, and the gnutls.el package was augmented
accordingly.

Re: ezwinports gnutls, does it work?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Wed, Feb 05 2014,Eli Zaretskii wrote:


[snipped 8 lines]

>> Has it worked for anyone?
>
> Yes, it works, but not in the way you think.  You need to build Emacs
> with GnuTLS support, or get a binary someone else built with such
> support; then install the GnuTLS DLL from the ezwinports site; and
> then Emacs will automatically use the GnuTLS DLL (not the gnutls-cli
> program!) to support TLS connections.
>
> The original TLS support via gnutls-cli uses signals, which doesn't
> work on Windows (except in Cygwin).  So Emacs on Windows now uses the
> GnuTLS library directly, and the gnutls.el package was augmented
> accordingly.
>
>

Thanks;  I'll probably check around the webz to see if I can find such
a binary.

On a related note, I had to do this, to get ezwinports to be seen first before
cygwin binaries.

M:! which find
C:/gnu/ezwinports/bin/find.EXE

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq exec-path
      (cons "C:/MiKTeX2.9/miktex/bin/x64"
      (cons "C:/gnu/ezwinports/bin"
      (cons "C:/gnu/bin/"
      (cons "C:/cygwin/usr/bin"
      (cons "C:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))))))

(setenv "PATH" (concat
"C:\\gnu\\ezwinports\\bin;C:\\MiKTeX2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64;C:\\cygwin\\bin;C:\\cygwin\\usr\\bin;C:\\gnu\\bin\\;"
(getenv "PATH")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


 sivaram
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