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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:10:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll not found..
From: vemuri AT helixgenomics DOT com
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Dear Igor,
       Thankyou for the suggestion.
       It worked fine once i gave the path.
thank you.
prasad

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 vemuri<at>helixgenomics<dot>com wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>       I downloaded cygwin and installed on XP professional.
>> I wrote a small c program to print my name.
>>
>> when run it from the cygwin console, the program is running.
>>
>> when I run the same executable from outside cygwin, it is giving the
>> following error:
>>
>> ***************************************************************************
>> abc.exe - unable to locate component
>>
>> This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.
>> Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>> ***************************************************************************
>>
>> I checked and found that cygwin1.dll is very well there in
>> /bin/cygwin1.dll.
>>
>> Can any body suggest how to over come this problem.
>> Thank you in anticipation. I am using the recent downloads available.
>>
>> waiting for your suggestions.
>> Prasad.
>
> Cygwin's /bin should be in your PATH when you run any Cygwin program.  If
> you want to run Cygwin programs from outside of the Cygwin environment
> (i.e., from a command prompt or a batch file), make sure your Windows
> system PATH contains c:\cygwin\bin (appropriately modified if you didn't
> install Cygwin into c:\cygwin).  It's a matter of debate on whether this
> directory should precede the Windows system directories or follow them --
> this heavily depends on whether you use the Windows tools from your
> command line or batch files...  Personally, I tack on c:\cygwin\bin to the
> end of the Windows PATH, and use the command prompt as little as possible.
> :-)
> HTH,
> 	Igor
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