Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/22/16:08:10
The newest Cygwin clearly does NOT include this file.
I have lots of machines here with lots of different version of cygwin.
The date of the file I used is
dobrin AT murgatroid:/usr/X11R6/bin> ls -al | grep cygdp
-rwxr-x--- 1 dobrin Domain Users 248320 Jul 20 2006 cygdps-1.dll
-rwxr-x--- 1 dobrin Domain Users 26112 Jul 20 2006 cygdpstk-1.dll
( I copied both of these files over as I assumed that they were
related)
I have a machine that still 1.5.18 on it and it has an earlier dated
version of these files from 2005, but the same file size as the one I
used. My upgrade history is .18 to .21 to .24 to .25 so the file I used
was most likely from .21 or .24. Again. I'm not a the maintainer and
have no idea what the lib is for (though I suspect it is an adobe
Postscript display lib) or which of the many x11 packages included it.
/usr/X11R6/bin should be in your path via the $PATH variable. I keep a
personal non-system directory in my path via the $PATH variable so that
I can move files and libs onto my machine for testing without risking
overwriting system installed files. This is where I put these libs and
why I suggested that you could put them anywhere that was in the path.
I have access to hundreds of machines and I keep my own
auto-install/autoupdate builds of cygwin going back a few versions so I
personally have these files handy, but I don't know where on the wide
wonderful web to get them.
I Hope this workaround helps, but Ideally, the maintainer will note
this thread and take action.
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee D. Rothstein [mailto:l1ee057 AT veritech DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:04 PM
To: Cygwin
Cc: Bruce Dobrin
Subject: Re: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and
'cygdpstk-1.dll'
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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