Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:59:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:43:40PM -0700, infoterrier wrote:
>Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> Roberto Sapiens wrote:
>> 
>> > I have dowloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com web site. From that download,
>> >  I have installed Cygwin with no problems in a Windows 2000 Pro
>> > computer. However, when I try to install Cygwin in my Windows XP Home
>> > Edition notebook, I see a message that says Cygintl-3.dll was not
>> > found and bash.exe crashes. How to solve this problem?
>>
>> That means that you deselected a required package in setup.  Rerun
>> setup, let it choose any missing dependencies, and make sure libintl3 is
>> selected.
>
>Here is the relevant information:
>
>9. How do I just get everything?
>
>Long ago, the default was to install everything, much to the irritation of
>most users. Now the default is to install only a basic core of packages.
>Cygwin Setup is designed to make it easy to browse categories and select
>what you want to install or omit from those categories. It's also easy to
>install everything:
>
>1. At the ``Select Packages'' screen, in ``Categories'' view, at the line
>marked ``All'', click on the word ``default'' so that it changes to
>``install''. (Be patient, there is some computing to do at this step. It may
>take a second or two to register the change.) This tells Setup to install
>everything, not just what it thinks you should have by default.
>
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages
>
>Notes:
>
>The cygwin installer is a disaster. If this project follows the norm of
>"open source" projects, you will be accused of incompetence and/or
>conspiracy with Microsoft if you point this out. However, it's obvious.
>
>Based on two installs I did, it's easy to get the "cygintl-3.dll problem"
>without doing anything wrong. Sometimes the installer (or perhaps the mirror
>site?) fails to include it even though it seems necessary.
>
>I find it somewhat amusing that UNIX activists choose to try to convert
>windows people by using non-standard installers that don't work. This is the
>mark of a "thin intelligence," or someone who can handle pre-defined tasks
>but is incapable of critical thinking.

Standard response #4.

Humorous vaguely insulting allusion.

Droll conclusion.

cgf

(Sorry, couldn't generate much enthusiasm for this troll.  Regular readers
should be able to fill in the blanks here.)

(Btw, infoterrier, your email is being archived.  Did you know that?)

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