Re: Emacs binaries for Windows

[Arash Esbati <arash.esbati+ml@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: arash.esbati@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:26:00 +0100
>> 
>> >> emacs-*-bin.tar.gz -- as is now (with libnoX4)
>> >> emacs-*-libraries.tar.gz -- with binaries for libraries
>> >> emacs-*-libraries.sources.tar.gz -- with sources for the libraries
>> >
>> > No, I meant each library in a separate archive.  Again, that's just my
>> > opinion, something I do all the time on the ezwinports site.
>> 
>> Would that not be a pain to install? You have to unpack them all
>> separately? Irritating from the desktop.
>
> Not sure why this would be a pain.  Unpacking .tar.gz files is already
> a pain on Windows (which is why ezwinports uses only *.zip files,
> which can be unpacked with the Windows Explorer).  But once that
> obstacle has been negotiated, why does it matter whether one needs to
> unpack one file or a dozen?

I think another issue would be making every single archive
self-contained then.  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.

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.

Just my 2 cents.

Best, Arash