Some Problems about Emacs-w32

[Ken Brown]

On 2/13/2013 2:49 AM, Arthur Tu wrote:
> On 2/13/2013 5:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 2/12/2013 3:33 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>> On 2/12/2013 12:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 2/12/2013 12:30 PM, Arthur Tu wrote:
>>>>> 1. Emacs-w32 depends on several libraries, such as libXpm-noX_4.
>>>>> However, these dependencies haven't been solved by setup.exe.
>>>>
>>>> libXpm-noX_4 is listed in setup.ini as a dependency of emacs-w32.  I
>>>> don't know
>>>> why setup.exe didn't offer to install it for you.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. After "emacs-w32 --daemon" starts a daemon, what "emacsclient -c"
>>>>> invokes was in fact an terminal session.
>>>>
>>>> Confirmed.  Daniel, is this to be expected?
>>>
>>> Not with the cygw32 emacsclient binary.
>>
>> Whoops!
>>
>> OK, I guess I'll have to ship a separate version of emacsclient with
>> the emacs-w32 package.  I'll make a new release that does this.

This has now been done.

> Frame created by emacs-w32 doesn't have an icon, which should be shown
> on taskbar.
> Should this also be considered a problem?

It's a known problem and has been fixed in the emacs development trunk. 
  The fix won't be in the upstream release of emacs-24.3, but I'll look 
into backporting it for the Cygwin distribution once I'm confident that 
emacs-w32 is working well.

Ken


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