Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/22/15:04:14
Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> I noticed that others had a problem running GraphicsMagick (gm.exe) on
> Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com. It appears
> to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely at fault. If you do a
> cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed "Error: could not find
> cygdpstk-1.dll". I found this on an older XP machine that had been
> upgraded to version 1.5.25 from many previous versions of cygwin. Once
> I copied this DLL into the path (I found it in /usr/X11R6/bin/) gm
> now seems to work fine. I don't know what this DLL is or does, but it
> does not appear to be in the currently X11 install.
>
> So find this Lib somewhere, copy it into the path and gm.exe will start
> working. No idea if it will bust anything else though
>
* My '/usr/X11R6/bin/' has no such file even though I have a
complete install of everything, probably because: mine is a
relatively new machine, and I have no such "remnants of yore".
* I found a dodgey version of 'cygdpstk-1.dll' on the net
(-rwxrwxrwx+ 180671 Jan 23 2004 cygdpstk-1.dll).
(I checked it with 'strings' and my Virus scanner, first.)
Is there a later version?
* Do the Cygwin archive servers that appear in the 'setup.exe'
list, keep prior versions of the install files? I presume that
the ftp servers are accessible thru a standard ftp client?
* I do not save the archives that are downloaded to install
Cygwin updates (although I do save all my personal
configuration information). If one cannot get these old
archives off The Net?, perhaps I should rethink my backup
strategy?
* The "path" you allude to, above, probably should be "$PATH".
* BTB, if a user has X windows properly installed, I believe,
'/usr/X11R6/bin/' would be in/on the "$PATH".
Bruce,
Thanks for the tip
I changed the subject line because both you and I had misspelled
GraphicsMagick in previous posts. (Makes finding the "Rosetta
Stone" difficult.)
Lee
Lee D. Rothstein
P.S. Thanks for the 'site:' tip on Google, as well.
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