Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:13:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Bruce Elmegreen cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: question re cygpcre.dll error message In-Reply-To: <200306052034.h55KY7G29920@bge2.watson.ibm.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bruce, On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Bruce Elmegreen wrote: > Dear Christopher, ^^^^^^^^^^^ FYI, you're addressing a mailing list. > I downloaded setup.exe for cygwin from http://cygwin.com > then ran it and installed from archive.progeny.com > This had no problem. > > When I clicked on the desktop icon, I got a box with this error > message: > > This application has failed to start because cygpcre.dll was not > found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. > > So I reinstalled from archive.progeny.com but each time it > said my installation was complete. > > I have cygwin running fine on a older comnputer (Windows 2000 -- > the new computer is Windows DX) and there is no cygpcre.dll > file there at all, as found by the search command. > > How do I solve this problem? > Thanks so much, > Bruce This is a packaging bug in the libpcre package that has been fixed already and should have propagated to some of the mirrors by now. Try reinstalling libpcre using setup. If that doesn't work (i.e., your mirror didn't get the update yet), try "cp /bin/cygpcre-0.dll /bin/cygpcre.dll" for now, and make sure you reinstall libpcre some time soon. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/