From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22959@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:32:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t7j4no3.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d1r3pqr0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:20:35 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Currently, building Emacs under msys2/ming-w64 produces a binary that
>> depends on libwinpthread.dll. The practical upshot of this is that after
>> building and installing Emacs according to the instructions, Emacs
>> cannot be launched from the Windows explorer -- it can be run from msys2
>> which has the path set up correctly. A binary release will, therefore, fail.
>>
>> Using the dependency walker shows the dependency is directly from Emacs,
>> and it appears to have come from a change in ming-w64, as reported here.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/31213279/
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748353
>>
>> This affects emacs-25, master and, indeed, emacs-24 built using the
>> current tool chain.
>
> If MinGW64 builds binaries that depend on libwinpthread DLL, then why
> isn't that DLL part of the MinGW64 GCC installation? That sounds like
> a bug in MinGW64 packaging, or maybe your installation is somehow
> incomplete or misconfigured?
It is part of the distribution. The problem is generating a binary for
other people that they can use. If I install Emacs and then package that
location, the executable will not work.
> (This is the first time that a MinGW64 Emacs user complains about
> this, so I wonder how others solve this problem.)
The Emacs-W64 distribution which builds in ming-w64 just copies
libwinpthread-1.dll into the bin directory.
The other solution is
./configure CFLAGS=-static
> The fact that Emacs runs OK when launched from MSYS2 Bash suggests
> that the DLL exists, but is not on PATH. Which might mean you need to
> change your system configuration to augment PATH.
Yes, that would work, but would be required on every machine that uses
Emacs.
>
> Or maybe you should use a different build of MinGW64 GCC? The second
> bug report you quote seems to indicate that there's a build which uses
> Windows threads, so it doesn't depend on the pthread library.
It does seem to suggest that, although I cannot find how to use this
from any documentation I have found. I will investigate further.
> Sorry, I don't use MinGW64, so I cannot help you more.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 14:52 bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads Phillip Lord
2016-03-09 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 16:32 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2016-03-09 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 18:56 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-09 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 21:48 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-04-17 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 15:25 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-04-17 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 19:31 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-04-18 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 19:50 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-04-21 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 13:06 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-18 13:41 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-04-18 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-19 7:26 ` Fabrice Popineau
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