Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/09/16:26:53
I am using the setup program downloaded today off of the website. I
think I have figured out the problem though (well part of it). Until
today, I had not updated CygWin in quite some time. I needed a new
package and decided to update as I went. I do not believe it updated
the libpng2-1.0.12-1 package on my machine. My guess is the previous
installer I used most likely had the bug causing that package not to
install the DLL and then the new install caused a dependancy failure
with the new version of ps2pdf. Forcing a reinstall of libpng2-1.0.12-1
installed the DLL properly.
Thanks for the information,
-Matt
P.S. Of course renaming DLLs is bad..;) I needed a PDF immediately and
it worked...:) I am a Windows programmer, and this would horrify me if
it were one of mine!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:10 PM
To: Matthew Appler
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Most current install fails to install cygpng2.dll
Matthew Appler wrote:
> The program ps2pdf requires cygpng2.dll.
cygpng2.dll is in the 'libpng2-1.0.12-1' package, which can be istalled
alongside the more current libpng-1.0.13-3, libpng10-1.0.13-3, and
libpng10-devel-1.0.13 packages. (You can investigate this yourself
here: http://www.cygwin.com/packages/
> However, even with each
> version of libpngX installed, this DLL was not installed.
Did you try libpng2-1.0.12-1? I did -- and I got cygpng2.dll.
> Renaming
> cygpng10.dll to cygpng2.dll solved the problem (for ps2pdf to operate
> correctly for me) but I am assuming there is likely differences
between
> version 1 and 2 of this DLL.
Ummm...yeah. Big differences. Don't do that.
> Checking the archive indicated installing
> a recent version of libpng2, and this was done, but failed to install
> this DLL. Any advice or is this a bug?
Well, there was an off-by-one error in a recent version of setup.exe;
the effect was to NOT install the last file in a package. For a package
with only one file, that means it didn't get installed. Try updating to
the newest version of setup.exe, and reinstall the libpng2 package.
--Chuck
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