cygwin1.dll missing getreent and fopen

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:44:48PM +0000, Misha Gale wrote:
> I have just tried to install cygwin, using the setup.exe downloaded from
> cygwin.com, and installing from a local directory (rsync'ed from
> sources.redhat.com last night) and having installed all the packages,
> come to the postinstall stage and been bombarded with messages saying
> "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%?

No!  Never!

> I am running Win2000 Pro SP4.
> 
> Is it actually possible someone has oopsed in the dll code tree and
> removed these rather crucial functions? Or have have I got a corrupt dll
> somehow?

An older one.  Apparently you didn't install using the setup.exe tool.
Remove your Cygwin installation, download setup.exe (http://cygwin.com
has a link) and start setup.exe to install a Cygwin distro.

Corinna

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