X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:31:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Zhen Cao cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: reinstallation fail: cygwin1.dll not found In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Zhen Cao wrote: > I have installed cygwin on the folder "D:\cygwin", and it is okay but > I have forgot to install "make". Maybe a mistake to delete all the > contents in "D:\cygwin", but unfortunately I did. > > After I reinstall cygwin from scratch (also in d:\cygwin), I cannot > use the shortcut on the desktop and it reported that "cygwin1.dll not > found,...". Then I managed to download it into "d:\cygwin\bin\" but it > reported "cygintl-8.dll not found, ...". > > How to fix this? Thanks for any suggestions. Hard to say without more information, as requested in > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html but I suspect you have stale mounts from your previous install. See where your mounts point to by running the "mount" command. Then run "mount -sf d:/cygwin /; mount -sf d:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin; mount -sf d:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib" and reinstall. You can then remove the old tree... > btw: the setup.exe is latest one. Latest with respect to what? An exact version number would be much more informative. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert -- 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/