Reposting (just to cygwin) under a different subject to make it easier to search the archives, since this problem is likely to show up with other binaries. Thanks for explaining this so well, Chuck. > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles S. Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DLL problems with cygwin XEmacs binary kit > > > The XEmacs-21.1.12 binary kit for cygwin, available from > http://www.xemacs.org/ or its mirrors, was compiled to use the 'old' > cygwin dlls for libtiff, libjpeg, and libz. Thus, if your system uses > the latest cygwin versions of these packages, XEmacs will not work and > will fail with the following message: > > Dynamic library "libtiff.dll" not found > > or something similar. To correct this, one can either > rebuild XEmacs to > link with the new dlls (*), OR you may download the following 'patch > kit' which contains the old dlls: > > http://cygutils.netpedia.net/old-dlls.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters /Wilson_Charles_S/old-dlls.tar.gz (*) The dll names have changed; that is OLD=libtiff.dll NEW=cygtiff3.dll. However, the import lib remains the same: libtiff.dll.a. Thus, there are no changes needed in the XEmacs source to link with the "new" dll's: -ltiff will use (the new) libtiff.dll.a, which in turn causes cygtiff3.dll to be added as a dependency. To install the 'patch kit', cd to /usr/bin and unpack it: cd /usr/bin tar xvzf <path>/old-dlls.tar.gz I do NOT recommend this for long-term use -- the point of changing the dll names was to avoid conflicts with native dlls with the same name; adding the old-dlls back in on a permanent basis just makes it that much worse. Eventually another binary kit (21.1.13?) will come out and if it is built on an "up-to-date" cygwin it will use the new dlls. So, this fix is just a temporary necessity -- and only required if you use the binary kit for cygwin-XEmacs-21.1.12. --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
