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On 4/23/2012 6:12 PM, Richard Troy wrote:
>
>  what on earth would --login have to do with where
> the dlls are found?

Without that, you don't run the profile files[*], so you get the Windows 
PATH[**]  which is clearly insufficient in your situation.

Somewhere in one of these files is a line of code that adds the 
directory containing the problem DLL to your PATH.

[*]  /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_login...
[**] System control panel > Advanced > Environment Variables

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