Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Arash Esbati]

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> I surmise people who want TLS (just as, now, people who want
> native-comp) must install MSYS2 and place it's bin directory directory
> on the windows path before starting Emacs.

I'm not sure about TLS, I had the impression that Emacs relies on the
.dll only.

My point was that currently the file emacs-28-deps.zip lacks
dependencies.  Take for example 3 files from the .zip libpng16-16.dll,
libturbojpeg.dll and libxml2-2.dll.  I've marked the missing
dependencies with '*' below:

Found: C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libpng16-16.dll
C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libpng16-16.dll
  C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\zlib1.dll *

Found: C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libturbojpeg.dll
C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libturbojpeg.dll
  C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libgcc_s_seh-1.dll *
    C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libwinpthread-1.dll *

Found: C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libxml2-2.dll
C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libxml2-2.dll
  C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\libiconv-2.dll *
  C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\liblzma-5.dll *
  C:\path\to\msys64\mingw64\bin\zlib1.dll *

Hence, people without an installed and available Msys2 (in $PATH) won't
be able to open a .png file in Emacs.

> Thanks for working on this; I really appreciate your diligence.

Thank your for working on this.

Best, Arash