Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Sep 1 14:39, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> This is not new, I don't think, but I thought I'd check if it's a known >> problem. >> >> Running Cygwin 2.5.2 on Windows 10 (which just forced the Anniversary >> update on me, various minor irritations to be overcome), > > Be glad, be *really* glad, you don't run W10 Enterprise and use a > WSUS server for updates...
Heh. >> I see the >> following: >> >> > cygcheck python27.dll >> Found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\python27.dll >> ... >> cygcheck: track_down: could not find MSVCR90.dll >> >> But not surprisingly /c/Python27/python runs just fine, and both strace >> and depends [1] report that the MSVCR90 dependency is satisfied from >> >> >> C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9247_none_08e394a1a83e212f\msvcr90.dll >> >> Just a minor irritation, but I'm curious if there's an underlying >> reason, or it's a bug. > > There's a reason and it's that WinSxS stuff. It works with invisible > redirections so the path itself is not in the usual DLL search path. > We could add the WinSXS dir and all subdirs, but is it worth it? Hmm, maybe on request (i.e. another flag) -- given that there may be multiple subdirectories of WinSxS, knowing which one is getting used can be of real value in tricky situations... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- 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