Fw: help win winxp install

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> - reformatted.

Sam The Cat wrote:
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> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: help win winxp install
> 
> 
>> Sam The Cat wrote:
>>> figure this one out  (I think)
>>>
>>> the first pass of the gcc (cc1) was looking for a dll "cygintl-3.dll" 
>>> this could not be found.  I did find "cygintl-8.dll" which shows 
>>> modification as of 10/22/2006.  Not sure if it is a complete fix but 
>>> I copied the "cygintl-8.dll" file and renamed it "cygintl-3.dll" and 
>>> the gcc now passes a rudementaly hello.c complile.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's a truly terrible way to solve your problem.  A better way would 
>> have
>> been to consult <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the package you 
>> were
>> missing (libintl3) and install it.  I recommend you do that 
>> immediately if
>> you don't want to suffer from more problems as a result of your attempt
>> above.
>>
 > ok -- I accept that my sol'n was not optimal but how do I accomplish what
 > you suggesting ?  On the web site I see there 5 versions of the
 > interntionalization library but on the setup tool where I specify what
 > package to isntall I am only given the option for the latest.  How do I
 > install a package that I need that setup does not offer me ?
 >


Try another mirror.  <ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org> showed me the libintl,
linintl1, libintl2, libintl3, and libintl8 packages.  As long as you
can find the package at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, there's going to
be at least one mirror out there with the package in question.

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