Re: Emacs for Windows

> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:14:59 +0200
> From: Alexander Shukaev <[email protected]>
> 
>     I can tell you how to avoid that dependency, if you don't
>     already know.
> 
> Sure, I am aware how to do that. This dependency comes from the fact that some
> external feature DLLs were not linked with '-static' flag because all of them
> are actually taken from MSYS2. In MSYS2 for a good reason they of course don't
> link statically GCC runtime into packages. I would have to manually rebuild all
> the external feature DLLs with '-static' flag to remove any explicit
> dependencies to GCC runtime, that's no problem.

Not -static, -static-libgcc, I think.  See this HOWTO:

  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Sneak_GCC_Switches_Past_Libtool

> I didn't do it this time because I simply wanted to quickly test the
> feasibility of actually producing a stable and feature-rich 64-bit
> build and to see whether it would be interesting to the community at
> all. Now since I see that it could be useful, I will gradually
> perform what we've discussed here with you and I will make an
> announcement when it's finished. Then you could once again do
> control check if everything is alright.

Thanks.