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Re: cygwin 1.1.1 dll will not work under original Win95


"Eric A. Welsh" wrote:
> 
> I am running the original Win95 upgrade (upgrade over win 3.1).  I have
> been running cygwin for a few years now, and I just got the latest 1.1.1
> dll that was posted May 14th.  Now, when I try to run anything that needs
> cygwin1.dll, I get
> 
> "The CYGWIN1.DLL file is linked to missing export
> ADVAPI32.DLL:CryptAcquireContextA."
> 
> My guess is that Micro$oft put some functions in the ADVAPI32.DLL file
> that weren't originally there and that my ADVAPI32.DLL doesn't have that
> in it....
> 
> So I'm asking if you can rebuild the dll so that it doesn't require this
> function.  It never did before.  Not even in the last developement
> snapshot that I tried a month or so ago.
> 
> Or just pirate me a copy of the latest ADVAPI32.DLL.  That would actually
> be the preferable solution, since I never know what crap might have
> changed since the one I have that could cause things to not run in the
> future :)

You only have to install W95 OSR2 or an Internet Explorer since
version 3.02.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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