From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on how to install gnutls dlls on windows Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:08:49 -0300 Message-ID: <86tuo0ltfy.fsf@protonmail.com> References: <86tuo3zi4a.fsf@protonmail.com> <83h7k3tvdr.fsf@gnu.org> <86mttvzgnf.fsf@protonmail.com> <83eef7tst7.fsf@gnu.org> <86eef7z2yy.fsf@protonmail.com> <83pmyqs95k.fsf@gnu.org> <86eef6rrsv.fsf@protonmail.com> <87im4iez3d.fsf@telefonica.net> <86sg3lp24i.fsf@protonmail.com> <87bla9eyxs.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Wayne Harris Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26894"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bW3rIg5WSMs+i0UhxZBl7gmwuNU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 20 20:09:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYuol-0006rM-3U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:09:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34018 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYuoj-0007Ug-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYuoA-0007UO-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYuo8-0002KM-Eo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYuo6-00063c-02 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:09:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129098 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > writes: > >>>> Doesn't emacs.exe depend on LIBGNUTLS-30.DLL? >>> >>> Emacs loads certain dlls at runtime, only when you use a feature that >>> requires them. >> >> Hm, I thought all DLLs were equivalent to UNIX shared objects. But I >> guess DLL means both shared object and those archives whose names always >> end in ``.a'' as in ``mylib.a'' to be linked against at link-time. > > foo.dll.a is an import library, a helper file that is used by the linker to > know that such and such symbol is defined in foo.dll. Instead of asking a hundred further questions, let me do this right and educate myself properly. I have a UNIX background, not a Windows one. What (book [hopefully]) should I read to understand the Windows side of things that usually goes on in this context we are --- Emacs for Windows, msys2 and such? (If it's written by someone who a UNIX background, that'll be even better. I'm definitely going to reduce all Windows matters to UNIX primitives, as I was trying to do above.) Thank you!