[AUCTeX] Re: Precompiled AUCTeX 11.85 for Emacs on Windows

[Ralf Angeli]

* Reiner Steib (2008-02-23) writes:

> Did you compile the sources yourself or use the binaries from
> www.zlib.net, gnuwin32.sourceforge.net, ...?

I used the binaries provided by the GnuWin32 project.

> Maybe I don't understand (please CMIIW): The use needs to download the
> "Third Party Dependencies" zlib123-dll.zip, libpng-1.2.8-bin.zip,
> tiff-3.8.2-1-bin.zip and jpeg-6b-4-bin.zip mentioned on
> <http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html>.

Hm, perhaps this has changed?  A few months ago I installed the Gimp on
Windows and I don't recall having to separately download the image
libraries for GTK+.  Like this there is obviously no advantage compared
to directly downloading the libraries.

> I also understand that updating the complete binary package of Emacs
> or AUCTeX is inconvenient.  Maybe gathering the DLLs in
> image-libs-YYYY-MM-DD.zip along with a document explaining the
> security problems would be a compromise:
>
>     bin/libpng13.dll
>     bin/jpeg62.dll
>     bin/libtiff3.dll
>     bin/zlib1.dll
>     bin/image-support-SECURITY.txt

Then you'll also need to provide license texts and sources.  It would
really be a repackaging of the libraries provided by GnuWin32.

Anyway, back to the topic of this thread: I've moved the precompiled
AUCTex package for Emacs 22.1 on Windows to
<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/auctex-11.85-e22.1-msw.zip> and put a
reference to it on our home page.

-- 
Ralf