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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs
>  developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  Phillip Lord
>  <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:33:40 +0100
> 
> I'm not tracking this development, so please bear with me.  Is the plan
> to unpack the file emacs-28.0.91-no-deps.zip into, say C:\emacs and
> unpack the .dll from emacs-28-deps.zip[1] into C:\emacs\bin?  If so, I'm
> afraid that the compiled features will not work since dependencies are
> missing in emacs-28-deps.zip, e.g.:

Yes, all the dependency DLLs, recursively, should be available to
Emacs, otherwise it will fail to load some of the DLLs, and the result
will behave as if the relevant DLLs (such as libgnutls-30.dll) were
absent.