Subject: Re: bug#21203: 24.5; about-emacs makes emacs freeze on windows 8.1

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:51:04 +0200

> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:42:12 -0400
> From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <[email-masked]>
> 
> Executing emacs from the windows command prompt directly (has GTKSharp
> on the PATH variable):
>   - emacs-about doesn't work
>   - the version says: GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) (had to run
> it with -nw to see it)
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) = t
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'png) = nil
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'xpm) = t
> 
> >From the windows command prompt, using a bat file to set the value of
> the variable PATH to the same value it had in the previous experiment:
>   - emacs-about works, displays svg image
>   - the version says: GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) = t
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'png) = nil
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'xpm) = t
> 
> >From cygwin, using the envoirment as it comes:
>   - emacs-about works, displays png image
>   - the version says: GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) = nil
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'png) = t
>   - M-: (image-type-available-p 'xpm) = t

Find the good DLLs and put them (and all their dependency DLLs) in the
same directory where you keep emacs.exe.  Then you don't need to worry
about PATH, because Windows looks in the directory of the .exe file
first.

> Now I'm pretty sure that this is not an GNU Emacs bug, so I think that
> this report can be closed here.

Closing, thanks.