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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050615194127.03c9f228@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:47:21 -0400 To: Andreas Eibach , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Cygwin bail-out: cygexpat-0.dll not found In-Reply-To: <507553983@web.de> References: <507553983 AT web DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:18 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >after about 3 years of total cygwin abstinence, I'm back. (I had started with b19 :)) > >This is most likely a FAQ, but since most people got this DLL in their log files, a bug report or anything like this is very hard to find with the sparse search options given. > >Error message is "Dynamic Link Library cygexpat-0.dll not found in specified path". >This happens when I try to start X Window ("startx"). I know this is not the place to ask X questions, but when I did a Windows search for *expat*, I found something related to Perl or Python, so it does not seem to be an X only issue ... > >The main problem is that I cannot find out which package this DLL belongs to, so I don't know which package to reinstall. I also remember that I got an error message with setup.exe, but I don't remember anymore which package it was. > >Cygwin is virgin 1.5.17 (0.129/4/2) on Win2K SP 4. >Please give me a hint where to search for the bug / problem. Welcome back! The first thing to do is re-familiarize yourself with the Cygwin Web page and it's resources. For this type of problem, you'll want to use the "Setup Package Search" page . Enter the file you're looking for and it will tell you which packages have a match. Use that information in 'setup.exe' to download and install the right package. I'll give you a hint on this one. You want the "expat" package. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/