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Re: emacs - Entry Point not found error
- From: "Mani Krishnan Venkatachari" <mkrishnan at lycos dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:02:05 +0530
- Subject: Re: emacs - Entry Point not found error
- Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80)
- Reply-to: mkrishnan at lycos dot com
Hi Joe,
Thanks for giving me a lead on the error. I noticed that the name conflicted with an existing application that had the same name for the libSM.dll and that created the problem. When, I uninstalled the application, emacs works fine.
Regards,
Mani.
--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:39:06
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Joe Buehler <jbuehler@hekimian.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Joe Buehler wrote:
>
>> Mani Krishnan Venkatachari wrote:
>>
>> > I installed the new version of cygwin recently. When I try to load
>> > emacs, it gives a dialog box with the following error.
>> >
>> > "The procedure entry point SmClientID could not be located in the dynamic link lilbrary lilbSM.dll"
>>
>> That library is in the Xfree86-bin package. It lives in /usr/X11R6/bin.
>> Make sure you have the package installed and that the directory is in your
>> PATH.
>>
>> It may be that libSM.dll has changed in a recent XFree86 release, in which
>> case there is a big problem.
>
>Joe,
>
>I've read on the cygwin-xfree list about the intent to eventually rename
>lib*.dll to cyg*.dll to conform to cygwin dynamic library naming
>standards. See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00491.html>.
>This is not currently happening, AFAIU; just a heads-up.
> Igor
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