I tried to report the bug within emacs, but somehow I couldn't because of some issues with email client setup (I am very new to emacs). So I am using email directly instead. The following text, I copy and paste from my writing in emacs bug report file that I failed to send within emacs:
I installed 24.5 in windows 7. Everything worked perfectly (after installing sbcl, quicklisp, slime etc). The issue is after I did the following:
I downloaded gtk3.6.4 all-in-one bundle from
http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php, unzip it and put the path,
/dir-to-gtk-bin/, in the windows environment variable, as instructed. The moment I put the path
in, emacs hang during the starting process. The menu appears but I can't
click it. I have to alt-contrl-del to kill it. Emacs starts normally
after I removed the path. I have read the FAQ for emacs and emacs in
windows. It looks like that emacs will use GTK images if the path is
in. I think that there is some conflict with the newest image lib in the
gtk3 under windows, since most of the lib versions in the gtk/bin is
newer than those in ezwinports. But I am too noob to check which
one. Thanks.
Andy,
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
Important settings:
value of $LANG: ENA
locale-coding-system: cp936
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
buffer-read-only: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
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