X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BD47829.3040609@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:13:13 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cyguninameslist-0.dll: cannot open shared object file References: <97EC33979B2C41C89F329FAFB52F3F3B AT MINI> In-Reply-To: <97EC33979B2C41C89F329FAFB52F3F3B@MINI> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 25/04/2010 17:09, Hans Becker wrote: > Keep getting the following error, have no idea how to fix it: Well, fontforge isn't in the standard distro, nor the missing DLL that you're looking for, so it'll have to be generic advice: > fontforge -new > /home/hb2/fontforge/fontforge.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > cyguninameslist-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: > No such file or directory Judging from an old thread I found(*), it looks like this DLL gets installed somewhere under $prefix/lib that won't be in your $PATH setting by default; it sounds like fontforge isn't aware of this difference between Linux shared libraries and Windows DLLs. See if you can find where it's got to and either add that dir to your PATH or copy it (and any other DLLs down there) to $prefix/bin. cheers, DaveK -- (*) - http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.fontforge.user/2006-08/msg00011.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple