[h-e-w] installing GnuTLS

[Daniel Brooks]

I'm trying to get Gnus set up on my windows machine and I'm having 
trouble getting GnuTLS installed (much simpler on my other machines, of 
course).

A recent message on this list gave me the hint about looking in 
README.W32, so off I go to download the installer. I downloaded the 
installer from the url given in the readme and installed it. Now 
(gnutls-available-p) returns t, so I figure I'm good. Unfortunately, 
attempting to open my IMAP server gives me an error saying "Unknown 
service: 993", which is actually pretty laughable.

Anyway, some googling tells me that the version I just installed is 
ancient, so I found http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html and 
that led me to some more recent windows builds, but no installer.

First, a suggestion: change the link in the readme to 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls so that as volunteer builders come 
and go the links don't go stale.

So now all I need to know is how to install GnuTLS 3.0.11 from the 
zipfile. Emacs apparently isn't finding it just from where it's sitting. 
I tried copying the dlls into the bin directory on the off chance that 
it would work, but no dice. Does anyone know what to change in the 
registry? Should I just regserver them and let them work it out? Also, 
why are they .dll.a files? What is the meaning of life? I suppose if it 
comes down to it, I can trace the older installer and see what it does 
to the registry.

Thanks in advance.

db48x