Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Rolf Hemmerling cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ? In-Reply-To: <40114FCD.8080000@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <40114FCD DOT 8080000 AT gmx DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII At a guess, either you didn't upgrade your "cygwin" package, or some Cygwin process was running while you upgraded. Had you attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" to your message (as indicated in ), this would have been apparent. Please check that your current Cygwin version is 1.5.5 or 1.5.6 (using "uname -a" and/or "cygcheck -cd cygwin"). If it isn't, upgrade the "cygwin" package (make sure to stop all running Cygwin processes, including services, while you upgrade). If it is 1.5.5 or later, simply reboot to allow the replace-on-reboot feature of setup.exe to kick in. Igor On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Rolf Hemmerling wrote: > Hello ! > > 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files > for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug to the authors & > builders of the binary distribution, so that WORKING packages are > offered for download, in the future ? ? > > *** From my point of view, this bug exists "since months" and nobody > cares of it. This is absolutely horror and might cause a very-bad > reputation of open-source & freeware, as the binary distribution is a > "must" for rookie users. **** > > I installed parts of the ***binary*** distribution of the Cygwin stuff, > with W2k,SP4. > > Some of the binary compiled tools, like G++ > (release/gcc/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-3.3.1-3.tar.bz2 ), when called in a DOS > box, refuse to work and abort with a special message in an extra window > ( of Windows) > > (german language on W2k) > 'Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt "__getreent" wurde in der DLL "Cygwin1.dll" > nicht gefunden'. > 'Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt "libintl_bindtextedomain" wurde in der DLL > "Cygmtl-2.dll" nicht gefunden'. > > (translation) > 'The entrypoint "__getreent" is missing in the DLL "Cygwin1.DLL"'. > 'The entrypoint "libintl_bindtextedomain" is missing in the DLL > "Cygmtl-2.dll"'. > > Same with the standard installation process with setup.exe: it fails, > with similar messages. > > The ** entrypoint __getreent is missing ** problem was discussed both > in this mailing list, and other mailing lists. Mostly it was by people > who did NOT run this binary distribution, but who were faced with the > bug when they compiled their own projects. Before compiling a project > (with windows), I need a working binard distribution ! > > Maybe the solution was a simple wrong -D definition when the binary > distribution was created ? Read this posting ! > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01441.html > "The compile option "-D__linux__" is the cause. > There are some header files which use __linux__ in them. > But cygwin environment (that corresponds to __CYGWIN__) somewhat differs > from __linux__ one. So using '__linux__' in cygwin has some bad effect > on those header files, I suppose." > > Any suggestions, besides to recompile the whole stuff by myself ( too > much work for me, especially as I am shure that I must know special > tricks to (cross-) compile the whole stuff on Linux :-(. ) > > Sincerely > Rolf -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT 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/