Greetings!

Basically, emacs has crashed on Win XP/7 for me, every time while I closed it, since 23.x. I'm on the latest release, and being completely fed up now, I finally decided to do something about it.

The fastest way to provide a context and background of my problem is to provide this Stack Exchange link: http://superuser.com/questions/576512/emacs-24-3-on-windows-7-does-not-close-properly


@Eli told me to get in touch here:


Ask the person who produced emacs.exe to tell you where he/she
downloaded libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, and what are its size and time stamp.
Then look for that version of the DLL on that very site.


Thanks for any help you have on this one, people.

Best,
surio.





On 3 April 2013 21:02, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:29:40 +0530
> From: Sawbones Surio <sawbonessurio@gmail.com>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org
>
> So the conclusion is that libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll that came with gnuplot is
> incompatible with what Emacs was linked against.  To solve this
> without having to remove gnuplot, find the file libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
> that Emacs is using now (e.g., by using the "depends" program), and
> copy it into the same directory where you have emacs.exe.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having exactly the same problem.
> See here: http://superuser.com/questions/576512/emacs-24-3-on-windows-7-does-not-close-properly
>
> But there is a slight twist in the tale for me:
> In my case, "libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll" was never seen in dependency walker. Whoa!
> And I had ~16 of those libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll files in various FOSS modules.
> Per your suggestion, I tried pasting these dlls from 3-4 different
> applications, one at a time, into \bin\emacs.exe dir, but I still get
> the same error.
>
> Since this was not going anywhere, I've decided to let the list know
> of this behaviour.
>
> Any suggestions?

Ask the person who produced emacs.exe to tell you where he/she
downloaded libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, and what are its size and time stamp.
Then look for that version of the DLL on that very site.