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Re: PNG support for Emacs on Windows


From: Robert Thorpe
Subject: Re: PNG support for Emacs on Windows
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 14:44:50 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
>> Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:17:40 +0100
>> 
>> PNG support doesn't seem to work though.  It gives the error "Cannot
>> Display Image: (Invalid Image Specification".
>> 
>> I noticed one thing that might be the problem.  I used the 64-bit build
>> of Emacs.  But, ezwinports only has the 32-bit build of the PNG
>> library.  I don't know if Windows can deal with a call from a 64-bit
>> program to a 32-bit library.
>
> It can't.
>
>> If it can't, where can I get a 64-bit version of the PNG library?
>
> The same place you got the Emacs binary, I guess.

You mean the version "emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip" with the dependencies
included?  That might work for me, I'm not sure though.

Are there any big advantages to using the 64-bit version instead of the
32-bit version?

BR,
Robert Thorpe



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