Re: bignum branch

[Andy Moreton]

On Fri 10 Aug 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> >> Emacs currently links against the shared library on MSYS2 64bit, and has
>>> >> a dependency on "c:/msys64/mingw64/bin/libgmp-10.dll".
>>> > You mean, on the bignum branch or on master/emacs-26?  If the latter,
>
> Under GNU/Linux, Emacs (at least both the 25 and 26 versions I have
> here) link dynamically with libgmp.  This is probably happening
> via libgnutls.

Good point. On Windows, emacs loads gnutls (and many other libraries)
explicitly using LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress (similar to dlopen/dlsym).
The Process Explorer utility can be used to show the loaded DLLs.

The master branch mingw64 x86_64 build does not load libgmp-10.dll when run
as "emacs -Q". However when run normally to use the package manage and
gnus, Process Explorer shows libgmp-10.dll is loaded.

    AndyM