Re: Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I downloaded emacs-28.0.50-snapshot-2020-06-26-x86_64-no-deps.zip from
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-28/, thinking it
> would be usable with the usual image-handling dlls I've had for years.
>
> Nope.  Missing libgmp-10.dll.
>
> Is it normal that now the choices are either (1) get the complete,
> additional 50M snapshot or (2) have to install dlls such as this
> separately?  It used to be possible to just have separate support for
> PNG, JPG, etc.

I just updated the dependencies for Emacs-27 and -28 to include jansson
which has been missed off, so this may have changed things.

It should have giflib, libjpeg, libpng included. If that doesn't work,
then it's broken. But I don't know what you mean "usuable with the usual
image-handling dlls I've had for years". Do you mean, you are using DLLs
that are already on your machine?

Eli, I don't include libgmp at the moment. Is this new for Emacs-27
also? If so, I need to update that also.

>
> Also, the README-windows-binaries in the same directory says this:
>
>  In addition, we provide the following files which will
>  not be useful for most end-users.
>
>  emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-deps.zip
>
>  The dependencies. Unzipping this file on top of
>  emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-no-deps.zip should result in the same install as
>  emacs-$VERSION-x86_64.zip.
>
> I see no such *-deps.zip file.  So I guess I need to download the full sack now.

The deps file didn't upload. Not uncommon, the GNU upload process is
horrible. They should be there soon, hopefully.

The installer version including all the dependencies is the smallest
package.


> The README-* file also has hard-coded "emacs-27" in place of emacs-$VERSION in two places.

The fix for this is also uploading.

Phil