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Subject: RE: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:31:39 -0700
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From: "David Masterson" <dmasterson AT vmware DOT com>
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Joe Buehler wrote:
> David Masterson wrote:
> 
>> What versions of Emacs, XWin, and Cygwin are you talking about? 
>> When I install all of Cygwin 1.5.18 (including the X stuff), Emacs
>> (under X) crashes on startup (a window comes up and then crashes
>> when I wiggle the mouse) and XEmacs  (under X) crashes on exit. 
>> This is on MS-Windows XP (SP2). 
> 
> The GNU emacs binary uses a number of dll's.  Do you have any way
> to try earlier versions of the dll's?  One of them will be the cygwin
> dll.  There will also be some X11 dll's and some misc dll's that
> handle jpeg images etc.

I can try the Cygwin time machine if you can suggest a version to try.  Are
you saying, though, that the version of (X)Emacs that Cygwin installs is
incompatible with the version of X that is installed?

----
David Masterson
VMware, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA

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