cygwin1.dll

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Jul 11 21:29:00 GMT 2000


--- "Reynolds, John" <John.Reynolds@sciatl.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I previously installed cygwin 1.1.2. I had a need to install an earlier
> version and thought I was safe by using a separate tree. I ran into a
> problem running the cygwin port of Perl 5.6.0 and ran cygcheck -s -v and
> found this:
> 
>   755k 1999/09/16 C:\WINNT\System32\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=1999/9/1 6:10
>   575k 2000/06/07 c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/6/6 22:20
> 
> Looks like the installation of the earlier version overwrote
> c:\WINNT\System32\cygwin1.dll. I assume it and the version in c:\cygwin\bin
> should be the same. Can I just copy the newer version into c:\WINNT\System32
> or will I need to reinstall cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz? Any other files to worry
> about?
> 

AFAIR setup.exe doesn't put cygwin1.dll into the system32 directory.  You had
to copy it there or something else put it there.  Therefore, just delete the
cygwin1.dll in the windows system32 directory.

Regards,

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