1arrybarnett wrote on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:28 PM:: > dsyzling wrote: >> >> Scott Fordin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can't get Emacs to work on Cygwin on Vista. Xemacs works >>> just fine, but Emacs doesn't. When I try to launch Emacs in >>> GUI mode from an xterm, the shell just hangs. When I try to >>> launch it in console mode from a non-X bash shell, the shell >>> just hangs. Again, Xemacs works; it's only Emacs that doesn't >>> work. Running emacs-nox doesn't help. I've also tried using >>> the -d and -nw options, but no joy. >>> >>> I'm running Cygwin on Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, as >>> follows: >>> >>> $ uname -a >>> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 balance 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-04-17 12:11 i686 >>> Cygwin >>> >>> The version of Emacs I'm using is one that came with the >>> Cygwin distribution, and is version 21.2.1. >> >> Not just me then, same problem here fails on Vista and Windows Server >> 2008. I have 21.2.1 running fine within a Windows XP virtual machine >> though, so something specifically about the Vista kernel version. >> >> I've yet to try later builds to see if this cures the problem - i.e. >> 23.3. >> >> >> Darren >> >> > > Scott, unless there is some reason you need to run Emacs under > cygwin, you can download a native Win32 build from GNU at > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/. I've been using it for years > and it works fine. > > Cheers, > > Larry
Could this be the problem with rebasing and ncurses? Several people on the cygwin list have found that after installing emacs, you need to do this: First, run rebaseall Then, using setup.exe, reinstall libncurses7 (because you don't want the ncurses DLL to be rebased). If that doesn't work, try searching the cygwin mailing list archives at http://www.cygwin.com/ml Phil
