Re: [h-e-w] Building with optional libraries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Test User <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:09:10 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> Which of the optional libraries used by emacs should my MinGW build
> be able to use?

See below, I marked them with "<<<".

> I have tried to build otf, xft and m17n and failed because of
> dependencies onX, but maybe there are Win32 ports.

They are useless on Windows.  Emacs on Windows uses the Uniscribe
shaping engine, a standard component of Windows, for complex script
display; these libraries provide the equivalent functionality on Unix.

> Definitely GIF and ImageMagick are available, but what else?

ImageMagick can currently be used only as a statically linked library,
since no one made the ImageMagick related code work with dynamic
run-time loading.

The rest of the optional libraries will all be loaded at run time when
they are first used.

Note that I marked D-Bus with "<<<<<<" because I heard someone who
said it worked for them, but I haven't tried that myself, and I very
much doubt it works reliably on Windows, so caveat emptor.

> Where should the build process find the source code?    ../emacs-24.4
>   What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc  -std=gnu99
> -Ic:/mingw/local/include
>   Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes  <<<<<<
>   Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes  <<<<<<
>   Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
>   What window system should Emacs use?                    w32  <<<<<<
>   What toolkit should Emacs use?                          none
>   Where do we find X Windows header files?                NONE
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   NONE
>   Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
>   Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use a gif library?                           no   <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use a png library?                           yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use imagemagick?                             no   <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs support sound?                               yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no   <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 no
>   Does Emacs use GSettings?                               no
>   Does Emacs use a file notification library?             yes (w32) <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use access control lists?                    yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lselinux?                               no
>   Does Emacs use -lgnutls?                                no   <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lxml2?                                  yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              no
>   Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt?                              no
>   Does Emacs use -lotf?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use -lxft?                                   no
>   Does Emacs directly use zlib?                           yes  <<<<<<
>   Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars?                     yes  <<<<<<