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Demmer, Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> the setup.ini lacks the requirement for "lapack".
> lapack provides cygblas.dll, which is required for more or
> less all programs using gsl.
> 
> On a side note: I have installed gsl, gsl-dev and gsl-doc, and 
> can compile and link programs using cyggsl-0.dll, but on execution
> they silently die. Is this the normal behaviour? I'd expect some kind
> of error message on startup. cygcheck however, reveals the dependency.

If it dies because you're missing cygblas.dll, there is no standard
error-reporting behavior imposed by Cygwin in these cases.  It's
application dependent.  So feel free to patch-away to get the behavior
you want with your favorite applications. ;-)

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