Re: Unable to run 64-bit GNU Emacs 25.3 on Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: 张鸥 <seagle0128@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:55:27 +0800
>> 
>> I think Matt may find the root cause per
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd319121
>> (v=vs.85).aspx.
>> > Important Starting with Windows 8: To maintain the ability to run
>> on Windows 7, a module that uses
>> Uniscribe must specify Usp10.lib before gdi32.lib in its library list.
>> 
>> BTW, I am able to run Emacs 25.3 on Windows 10, while unable on Windows 7 
>> (any edition).
>
> That would mean Emacs 25.3 binaries were produced with a version of
> MinGW different from that of 25.2.  Is that true?


Not sure I replied. Yes, it is true. I update msys2 between builds.

Phil