cygwin1.dll missing getreent and fopen

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hello Misha,

> "The procedure entry point __fopen64 couldn not be located in the dynamic
> link library cygwin1.dll" or "The procedure entry point __getreent couldn
> not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll"

> This occurs when 'bash' 'sed', 'basename' or 'uname' (and probably
> others) are executed. I have also recieved an "unable to locate dll" for
> cygpcre.dll from 'grep.exe'

> cygwin1.dll is installed in /bin, is this the right location or should it
> be in %SYSTEMROOT%?

Have you tried to reboot the system?

[...]

> If I can aquire a working copy of the dll, how can I cause the
> post-install steps to be executed without re-doing the whole install?

Run the scripts in /etc/postinstall.


> I could really use some help here, otherwise I may be condemned to
> implement my computer science project in visual basic...

Oh no, don't do this;-)


Gerrit
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