Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
Now I wonder what to do with the image libraries. This problem is of course not only a problem for Emacs+EmacsW32. The same thing that happened here could happen to anyone using Emacs on ms windows.
Hence the advice from Cygwin folks not to include Cygwin in the system-wide PATH. This can happen with any Windows program that loads DLLs that happen to have the same name as Cygwin DLLs, which is common with ported software.