Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Thanks. Just built and installed emacs on MSYS2/Mingw-w64/64 and it
> doesn't start, no output whatsoever. Tried gdb and the output was quite
> strange:
>
> $ gdb emacs.exe
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> Reading symbols from emacs.exe...
> (No debugging symbols found in emacs.exe)
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: C:\apps\msys64\mingw64\bin\emacs.exe
> [New Thread 2480.0x7b0]
> warning: C
> warning: a
> warning: n
> warning: n
> warning: o
> warning: t
> warning:
> warning: o
> warning: p
> warning: e
> warning: n
> warning:
> warning: l
> warning: o
> warning: a
> warning: d
> warning:
> warning: f
> warning: i
> warning: l
> warning: e
> warning: :
> warning:
> warning: N
> warning: o
> warning:
> warning: s
> warning: u
> warning: c
> warning: h
> warning:
> warning: f
> warning: i
> warning: l
> warning: e
> warning:
> warning: o
> warning: r
> warning:
> warning: d
> warning: i
> warning: r
> warning: e
> warning: c
> warning: t
> warning: o
> warning: r
> warning: y
> warning: ,
> warning:
> warning: u
> warning: r
> warning: l
> warning: -
> warning: h
> warning: a
> warning: n
> warning: d
> warning: l
> warning: e
> warning: r
> warning: s
> warning:
> Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, url-handlers
> [Thread 2480.0x7b0 exited with code 0]
> [Inferior 1 (process 2480) exited with code 037777777777]
> (gdb)
>
>
> However, -Q works. Will bisect my .emacs later tonight.

The problem persist after commenting-out all my .emacs. However, noticed
that on `emacs -Q .emacs` if I evaluate (package initialize) (which is
the first line in my .emacs, courtesy of Package.el) this error is
thrown:


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" #("No such file or directory" 0 25 (charset windows-1252)) "url-handlers")
  require(url-handlers)
  byte-code("\301\302!\210\301\303!\210\301\304!\210\301\305!\210\301\306!\210\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316&\7\210\317\320\321\322\323DD\324\325\326\315\316&\7\210\317\327\321\322..." [package-user-dir require cl-lib seq tabulated-list macroexp url-handlers custom-declare-group package nil "Manager for Emacs Lisp packages." :group applications :version "24.1" custom-declare-variable package-enable-at-startup funcall function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbc8589>) "Whether to make installed packages available when ..." :type boolean package-load-list #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbcffa9>) "List of packages for `package-initialize' to make ..." (repeat (choice (const all) (list :tag "Specific package" (symbol :tag "Package name") (choice :tag "Version" (const :tag "disable" nil) (const :tag "most recent" t) (string :tag "specific version"))))) :risky t package-archives #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbdcd31>) "An alist of archives from which to fetch.\nThe defa..." (alist :key-type (string :tag "Archive name") :value-type (string :tag "URL or directory name")) "26.1" package-menu-hide-low-priority #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbdf1b1>) "If non-nil, hide low priority packages from the pa..." (choice (const :tag "Don't hide anything" nil) (const :tag "Hide per package-archive-priorities" archive) (const :tag "Hide per archive and version number" t)) "25.1" package-archive-priorities #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbe7471>) "An alist of priorities for packages.\n\nEach element..." (alist :key-type (string :tag "Archive name") :value-type (integer :tag "Priority (default is 0)")) package-pinned-packages #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbe742d>) "An alist of packages that are pinned to specific a..." (alist :key-type (symbol :tag "Package") :value-type (string :tag "Archive name")) "24.4" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbe7805>) "Directory containing the user's Emacs Lisp package..." ...] 12)
  (package-initialize)
  eval-region(254 274 t #f(compiled-function (ignore) #<bytecode 0x15f7cfd>))  ; Reading at buffer position 279
  elisp--eval-defun()
  eval-defun(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-defun nil)
  call-interactively(eval-defun nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-defun)