From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ezwinports gnutls, does it work? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:48:20 +0530 Message-ID: <878utqcnf7.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87d2j2d91e.fsf@gmail.com> <83y51q1ymw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391566731 24455 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2014 02:18:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 02:18:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 05 03:18:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4n-0000aN-Nr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4n-0001Yn-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4W-0001Y6-Et for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4P-0005Vt-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4O-0005Vf-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAs4N-0000QA-IB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:18:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.178.208.212 ([122.178.208.212]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:18:31 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.178.208.212 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:18:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.178.208.212 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bf23mYDisOLYJF8rImJruXDmur4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95917 Archived-At: 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 --