Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: Slowness of Cygwin (and NT/2000 failure) From: Robert Collins To: Ron House Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <3B7339B0.2B8F97C1@usq.edu.au> References: <3B71FD9D DOT 1AE29C53 AT usq DOT edu DOT au> <3B72B4C0 DOT 4020100 AT earthlink DOT net> <3B732FA1 DOT 3C31E18D AT usq DOT edu DOT au> <997405375 DOT 12638 DOT 0 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <3B7339B0 DOT 2B8F97C1 AT usq DOT edu DOT au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12 (Preview Release) Date: 10 Aug 2001 11:46:37 +1000 Message-Id: <997407997.3564.3.camel@robertlinux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2001 01:47:16.0338 (UTC) FILETIME=[6243BD20:01C1213E] On 10 Aug 2001 01:32:32 +0000, Ron House wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > On 10 Aug 2001 00:49:45 +0000, Ron House wrote: > > > > > > I am running on Windows 98. Unfortunately the program won't execute on > > > my friend's WinNT box nor on another friend's Win2000 box. (It says > > > "Error opening terminal: cygwin.") I managed to get at the W2000 box and > > > do some experiments, and it seems that the program actually does execute > > > up to the point where ncurses tries to take over the screen. As I have > > > linked statically, I don't think this can be due to missing dlls. The > > > ncurses docs seem to be standard, with no special tips for running under > > > Cygwin, so I am at a loss. > > > > Have you installed cygwin on their machine (via setup.exe?) > > No I haven't. This program must be distributed to many > computer-illiterate people who won't want that. That's why I linked > statically, but you are probably right that something is still missing. > Strangely, the prog. executes fine on my 98 box, even from a dos shell > that doesn't have the Cygwin bin in its search path. AFAIK, that means > that the only part of the Cygwin system it can be seeing is cygwin1.dll, > which is in the windows/system directory. I have placed that dll on the > other machines in winnt/system32, which is in their path. So I am > mystified. I'm not. You don't have a mount table. you also don't have termcap files. static linking just means that you need less .dll's, not that any other part of cygwin can be skipped. See the installing cygwin entries in the faq, or the mailing list archives. Rob > -- > Ron House house AT usq DOT edu DOT au > http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house -- _____________________________ Robert Collins CEO IT Domain Pty Limited Your Application Solution Partner 02 9476 4223 Mobile: 0414 693 367 www.itdomain.com.au _____________________________ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/