Re: strange ezwinports issue

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 08 2015,Eli Zaretskii wrote:


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> There was no change that necessitated this.  What this experiment
> means is that you have a small "DLL hell" on your hands: you have an
> incompatible copy of some DLL that is used by some of the ezwinports
> that lives in some other directory which is closer to the beginning of
> your PATH than the ezwinports' bin/ directory.  So when Emacs loads,
> say, libgnutls-28.dll, and looks for its dependency DLLs, it finds
> that incompatible DLL first, tries to load it, which fails (due to
> whatever makes it incompatible), and then the load of libgnutls-28.dll
> fails because of that.
>

Right but this is a bit confusing.  You see, the version that I was
using earlier had all the DLLs under ezwinports and NOT under the
Emacs bin directory.  I renamed it as ezwinportsold and the downloaded
one as ezwinports. At this point it stopped working.  If I rename the
old one back as ezwinports again, it works.

Why does this work then?

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