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Federico Hernandez wrote:
>>> Sounds like you may be missing dll.  cygcheck yourprogram.exe might help.
>> Thank you. We will do this.
>>
>> A gdb run provided some exit code which google and the mailing list
>> archive suggested to be some dll problem. Now I know how to find out.
> 
> Problem solved. We have discovered the missing lib.
> 
> Thx for pointing out cygcheck <appname>.

  Also, you can check exit status from the shell by running "echo $?" after
the command, which is a bit less trouble than using the debugger.  The "$?"
shell variable gets set to the status of the last command executed.  (This is
generic shell stuff, not cygwin-specific.)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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