Subject: bug#14762: 24.3.50; hurdles getting Emacs to show images on MS Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:32:02 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:32:59 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > 4. Better - much better - would be to include image support in GNU Emacs
> > out of the box.  On MS Windows.  And that is what users, especially new
> > users, EXPECT, and SHOULD expect.
> 
> Doesn't the Emacs Windows builds come with all the appropriate DLLs
> these days?

No.  The binary was compiled against those DLLs, but the DLLs
themselves need to be downloaded and installed by the end users.