[debbugs-tracker] bug#22959: closed (Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads)

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> Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads
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> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:52:18 +0000
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)
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> Currently, building Emacs under msys2/ming-w64 produces a binary that
> depends on libwinpthread.dll. The practical upshot of this is that after
> building and installing Emacs according to the instructions, Emacs
> cannot be launched from the Windows explorer -- it can be run from msys2
> which has the path set up correctly. A binary release will, therefore, fail.
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> Using the dependency walker shows the dependency is directly from Emacs,
> and it appears to have come from a change in ming-w64, as reported here.
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> https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/31213279/
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> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748353
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> This affects emacs-25, master and, indeed, emacs-24 built using the
> current tool chain.
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> Re: bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads
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> Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:25:03 +0300
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> > From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:50:44 +0200
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> >  OK. Do we still have any problems left in this bug report? Or can we
> >  close it?
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> > You can close it. The dependency towards libwinpthread is removed with the 
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> > to mingw-cfg.site .
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> I pushed that patch to master, and closing.
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> Thanks.
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