How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll'

Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057@veritech.com
Tue Apr 22 19:18:00 GMT 2008


Bruce Dobrin wrote:

 > I noticed that others had a problem running GraphicsMagick (gm.exe) on
 > Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com.  It appears
 > to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely at fault.  If you do a
 > cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed "Error: could not find
 > cygdpstk-1.dll".  I found this on an older XP machine that had been
 > upgraded to version 1.5.25 from many previous versions of  cygwin.  Once
 > I copied this DLL  into the path (I found it in /usr/X11R6/bin/) gm
 > now seems to work fine.  I don't know what this DLL is or does,  but it
 > does not appear to be in the currently X11 install.
 >
 > So find this Lib somewhere,  copy it into the path and gm.exe will start
 > working.  No idea if it will bust anything else though
 >

 * My '/usr/X11R6/bin/' has no such file even though I have a
   complete install of everything, probably because: mine is a
   relatively new machine, and I have no such "remnants of yore".
 
 * I found a dodgey version of 'cygdpstk-1.dll' on the net
   (-rwxrwxrwx+ 180671 Jan 23  2004 cygdpstk-1.dll).
   (I checked it with 'strings' and my Virus scanner, first.)
  
   Is there a later version?
 
 * Do the Cygwin archive servers that appear in the 'setup.exe'
   list, keep prior versions of the install files? I presume that
   the ftp servers are accessible thru a standard ftp client?
 
 * I do not save the archives that are downloaded to install
   Cygwin updates (although I do save all my personal
   configuration information). If one cannot get these old
   archives off The Net?, perhaps I should rethink my backup
   strategy?

 * The "path" you allude to, above, probably should be "$PATH".
 
 * BTB, if a user has X windows properly installed, I believe,
   '/usr/X11R6/bin/' would be in/on the "$PATH".

Bruce,

Thanks for the tip

I changed the subject line because both you and I had misspelled
GraphicsMagick in previous posts. (Makes finding the "Rosetta
Stone" difficult.)

Lee

Lee D. Rothstein

P.S. Thanks for the 'site:' tip on Google, as well.



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