Re: Process to build standalone Emacs + deps in Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juan José García-Ripoll
>  <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:24:15 +0100
> 
> The no-deps version does not have the compression utilities but it is
> not intended to be used by itself, as it depends on all the *.dll

If this is indeed so, it's a bug in the build procedure.  All the
optional DLLs (a.k.a. "dependencies") are loaded dynamically at run
time, and if some DLL is unavailable, the corresponding features will
fail, but Emacs will still run "by itself" and be a useful editor.
That is not what "depends on DLLs" mean on Windows: it means a program
will refuse to start if the DLL cannot be found.  For Emacs, this is
only true for a few core DLLs that are available on any Windows system.