how to notify a program of another program? dll? directory? path?

I am trying to experiment with GNUS email in Emacs, in Windows (EDIT: x64 bit). I've got it to work in Ubuntu, but struggling with it in Windows.

From

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs-gnutls.html#Help-For-Users

I read in second paragraph:

This is a little bit trickier on the W32 (Windows) platform, but if you have the GnuTLS DLLs (available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ thanks to Eli Zaretskii) in the same directory as Emacs, you should be OK.

I have downloaded and unzipped the gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin package, but am not sure what to do with it. I have tried putting it in Program Files (x86), which is "the same directory as Emacs". I have tried putting it in the emacs-24.3 folder. I consider merging all the folders in between the two, but am hesitant as that seems a difficult troubleshoot attempt compared to my knowledge on these matters.

I think Emacs needs to somehow see the gnutls binaries and/or dlls. My knowledge is limited on this. I've also struggled to understand PATHs for sometime now, and am not sure if that approach is relevant here.

FYI, the emacs directory contains folders labeled bin, etc, info, leim, lisp and site-lisp. The gnutls directory contains folder labeled bin, include, lib and share.

Hmm, now I'm finding lots of links on adding paths. Still, I'm skeptical that I would only add gnutls.exe path, as it seems the dlls are needed.

Some additional data for Ramhound's first comment

I have been attempting the (require 'gnutls) route. This seems to be the most relevant parts in the log:

Opening connection to imap.gmail.com via tls...
gnutls.c: [1] (Emacs) GnuTLS library not found
Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 993 imap.gmail.com'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 993 imap.gmail.com --protocols ssl3'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993 -no_ssl2 -ign_eof'...failed
Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...failed

I am not sure what "in stallion" means. Emacs seems to have installed itself in program files (x86), so I assume it is 32 bit. I can try and figure out how to double check, but did not realize I would get such fast response time, and am headed out right now.

I will try merging the files later tonight?

Brady Trainor

Posted 2014-01-03T22:32:22.563

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1The DLLS from the GnuTLS /bin directory probably need to go into Emacs' /bin directory. – Aaron Miller – 2014-01-03T22:33:52.083

This a x86 or x64 operating system? I already know the answer based on some facts within the question but update the question none the less. Do you know if eMac is running as a 64-bit or 32-bit application? What are the specific problems you face when you run it? The proper location is where the eMac executable is exactly, update the question, to reflect the in stallion directory – Ramhound – 2014-01-03T22:35:55.090

@AaronMiller, can I simply "yank them out", with no regard to the rest of the GnuTLS folders? Would this be a good time to create a system restore points, to make it easier to experiment with Program Files? – Brady Trainor – 2014-01-03T22:42:56.427

@Ramhound and AaronMiller, thank you for your help, I will be back on later to try these out. – Brady Trainor – 2014-01-03T22:55:38.190

FWIW, I wrote up the process that worked for me.

– legoscia – 2014-06-13T15:52:13.323

how to notify a program of another program? dll? directory? path?

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