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> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:55:08 +0100
> 
> There's been a lot of discussion about including libgnutls with the
> Emacs binaries, and I'm obviously all for that.  But nobody has
> mentioned libxml2.  I'd rather like to have that included, too, so that
> people can read HTML in Emacs.

Making it possible to build Emacs on Windows with libxml2 is a
standing todo item that I hope will be done soon.

> So what are the "guidelines", if any, about what libraries get included
> in the binary Windows builds?

Like Juanma said: only those that are absolutely necessary for Emacs
to run.  For now, that's only libxpm (needed to display the tool-bar
icons).