Re: sqlite3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:19:04 +0100
> 
> > The MinGW port of GDB works very well on Windows, I use it all the
> > time.  What problems did you see?
> 
> Emacs crashed under gdb, but "bt" didn't give me anything.

This could happen if the callstack is smashed.

> >   . Emacs is linked against the sqlite3 DLL statically, because
> >     configure.ac unconditionally adds -lsqlite3 to the link command
> >     line.  This -lsqlite3 should be removed in the Windows build,
> >     since we will be loading the library at run time by an explicit
> >     call to the moral equivalent of 'dlopen'.  See how this is done
> >     in configure.ac for other optional libraries.
> >
> >   . You didn't add the necessary stuff to dynamic-library-alist in
> >     w32-win.el.  Without that, Emacs doesn't know which DLL to try to
> >     load.
> 
> Thanks; with those two changes, the sqlite branch now seems to work fine
> dynamically loaded under mingw, but you should probably have a look at
> this, as this is the very first time I've done this stuff.

Will do, when the code lands on master.

Thanks.