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Re: ezwinports gnutls, does it work?
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Sivaram Neelakantan |
Subject: |
Re: ezwinports gnutls, does it work? |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:48:20 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
On Wed, Feb 05 2014,Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> Has it worked for anyone?
>
> Yes, it works, but not in the way you think. You need to build Emacs
> with GnuTLS support, or get a binary someone else built with such
> support; then install the GnuTLS DLL from the ezwinports site; and
> then Emacs will automatically use the GnuTLS DLL (not the gnutls-cli
> program!) to support TLS connections.
>
> The original TLS support via gnutls-cli uses signals, which doesn't
> work on Windows (except in Cygwin). So Emacs on Windows now uses the
> GnuTLS library directly, and the gnutls.el package was augmented
> accordingly.
>
>
Thanks; I'll probably check around the webz to see if I can find such
a binary.
On a related note, I had to do this, to get ezwinports to be seen first before
cygwin binaries.
M:! which find
C:/gnu/ezwinports/bin/find.EXE
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(setq exec-path
(cons "C:/MiKTeX2.9/miktex/bin/x64"
(cons "C:/gnu/ezwinports/bin"
(cons "C:/gnu/bin/"
(cons "C:/cygwin/usr/bin"
(cons "C:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))))))
(setenv "PATH" (concat
"C:\\gnu\\ezwinports\\bin;C:\\MiKTeX2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64;C:\\cygwin\\bin;C:\\cygwin\\usr\\bin;C:\\gnu\\bin\\;"
(getenv "PATH")))
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sivaram
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