Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE

[Phillip Lord]

Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> writes:

> Björn Lindqvist <bjourne@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As someone who don't use MSYS I don't understand the advantage of
>> duplicating the files? You mentioned unzipping Emacs over an MSYS
>> installation, but that seems a little odd. Usually on Windows you
>> don't install software that way. But maybe for your use case you can
>> use the larger emacs-26.1-x86_64.zip file? It includes a lot of
>> dependencies like Python2.7, Sqlite 3.20, and OpenGL headers which I
>
> Since it is mentioned, what is the possible depence on Python for the
> emacs installation?


I don't know. I calculate the dependencies based on the metadata from
msys. You can see the code at admin/nt/dist-build/build-deps-zips.py and
work out where this comes from.

Phil