Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/10/02:42:59
Siegfried,
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
It does sound like you do need to put "C:\cygwin\bin" in your Windows
PATH, and make sure it gets propagated to Emacs. Alternatively, you could
try to get Emacs to run "bash -l" as its shell (don't ask me how, I don't
use Emacs).
Igor
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:
> Igor,
> That is a handy command! here is the results (from
> the emacs compile command:
>
> cd c:/busines/
> cygcheck nd.exe
> Found: c:\util\nd.exe
>
> c:/util/nd.exe
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
> Error: could not find libxml2.dll
>
> Here is the same command from the bash command window:
> Administrator AT fasolt ~
> $ cygcheck nd
> Found: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\nd.exe
> Found: c:\util\nd.exe
> C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/nd.exe
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
>
> When I removed nd.exe from c:\util the bash shell
> running under emacs could not find nd.exe.
>
> Anybody know why?
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Siegfried
>
> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:
> >
> > > I am running Windows 2003 server with on which I have installed
> > > cygwin within the last month.
> > >
> > > I found a terrific little utility (webdav client) at
> > > http://www.gohome.org/nd/ which I downloaded and compiled (with gcc)
> > > with cygwin. At the bash command prompt, it appears to work.
> > >
> > > However, it is intended to be run from emacs. When I create a shell
> > > with emacs, it starts up a bash shell as a sub process and I get the
> > > error: "this application has failed to start because libxml2.dll was
> > > not found. Re-installing the application my fix this problem.". Well
> > > there is no libxml2.dll on my system but the command works from the
> > > bash command prompt! HOw could this be?
> > >
> > > I notice there are libxml2.dll.a and libxml2.a and libxml2.la in my
> > > /usr/lib directory! This must be the one! Why cannot the bash shell
> > > find it when run under emacs? Do I need to put c:\cygwin\lib in my
> > > PATH environment variable?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Siegfried
> >
> > Siegfried,
> >
> > You don't need c:\cygwin\lib in your path, but you do need
> > c:\cygwin\bin there if you intend to run Cygwin applications from
> > Win32 ones. FWIW, the actual name of the DLL is cygxml2-2.dll (which
> > you could have determined by examining /usr/lib/libxml2.la), but it's
> > surprising that it looks for libxml2.dll. Can you start a regular
> > bash shell from Emacs? Can you run "cygcheck yourapp" from that shell
> > before running "yourapp"? What does the output of the above cygcheck
> > command show?
> > Igor
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