Subject: bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:16:08 +0200

> From: [email-masked] (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:56:37 +0000
> 
> >> The other solution is
> >> 
> >> ./configure CFLAGS=-static
> >
> > If that gives reasonable results, yes.  What problems, if any, does it
> > create?
> 
> Well, it works, which is a reasonable result.
> 
> Disadvantage? I guess, if it is dropped into an existing ming-w64
> installation, then it will (effectively) duplicate the libwinpthread
> binary that is there. More, it will not gain any updates to that
> libwinpthread library. If Emacs is being used standalone on a system
> with no other part of mingw/msys then these points are moot.

If that's the only problem, then I'd say go for it.