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Subject: Install still fails on win7 (and no tips after 2.5 months?)
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Why does cygwin not install properly on windows 7 (32 bit)?

i've googled it and all I've found is a scatterring of similar issues
and no suggestions.  Why isn't there a FAQ?

I have the same error messages as David Means (23 Sep 2010), and I've
tried to install cygwin with all the version compatibility &
run-as-administrator options that windows 7 has to offer.=A0 What
gives???=A0 I've had it working on XP and on Vista...and win7 after my
vista install was upgraded to a win7 preview release...=A0 (but there i
didn't have to do the installation from scratch)...

So what is the magic recipe for installing cygwin on a fresh copy of
windows...and how come the cygwin setup.exe program doesn't detect and
fix the problem that I keep having...=A0 has anyone put together a
more-windows-compatible installation method (that also happens to come
with a working uninstaller?)=A0 Gimp...pidgin...and lots of other free
software tools have better installers...

I hope this doesn't seem toooooo grumbly, but it seems like such a
huuuuuge problem (can't install on major OS) that i'm astounded that
months after multiple reports there's not even a FAQ or something...

I would be grateful for a fix...

> Install failure on Windows 7
>
>=A0=A0=A0 From: David Means <w1t3h4t at gmail dot com>
>=A0=A0=A0 To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>=A0=A0=A0 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:47:12 -0400
>=A0=A0=A0 Subject: Install failure on Windows 7
>
> On Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit.
>
> For al post-install actions, there are a log entries such as follows:
>
> 2010/09/23 11:21:58 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
> 2010/09/23 11:22:06 abnormal exit: exit code=3D-1073741515
> 2010/09/23 11:22:06 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
> 2010/09/23 11:22:07 abnormal exit: exit code=3D-1073741515
> 2010/09/23 11:22:07 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
> 2010/09/23 11:22:07 abnormal exit: exit code=3D-1073741515
> 2010/09/23 11:22:07 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
> 2010/09/23 11:22:08 abnormal exit: exit code=3D-1073741515
> 2010/09/23 11:22:08 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
>
> And a dialog is posted to the UI, reporting a failure:
>
> "The program can't start because cyggcc_s-1.dll is missing from your
> computer.=A0 Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."
>
> I tried re-install, but to no avail.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> ---
> David Means

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