Re: [h-e-w] issues with 22.1's new xpm support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:04:23 -0700
> From: Rob Walker <address@hidden>
> 
> Of course, I'd much rather have not had to deal with this in the first 
> place.  I run with tool-bar-mode set to nil, so the xpm support is a 
> wasted feature for me...  Is there a way to disable it or to make it 
> more predictable (e.g. install the necessary DLLs with ntemacs)?
> 
> In an attempt to disable this feature, I edited the emacs.exe binary 
> looking for the code that explicitly loads the XPM DLL.  My thought was 
> that I'd twiddle the strings used to call LoadLibrary() so that the xpm 
> DLLs always failed to load.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find these 
> strings (in any encoding).  How exactly does this feature work?

The list of DLLs Emacs looks for is set up by the value of
image-library-alist, which is defined on lisp/term/w32-win.el.