Cygwin Execution Problem

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 12 17:48:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:25:41AM +0000, Mark Geisert wrote:
>>sunil kumar writes:
>>>I downloaded and installed the latest Cygwin from site.  But after
>>>installation while executing Cygwin, i got the following error.
>>>
>>>"This application has failed to start because cygncurses-8.dll was not
>>>found, Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
>>>
>>>What may be the cause?
>>
>>Let's leave that for later.  Somebody else may chime in with the
>>answer.  For now:
>
>?  Isn't the answer excruciatingly obvious?  You're missing something
>with the name "ncurses" in it so you have to install a package which
>contains that file.  Use http://cygwin.com/packages to find the file.

Sorry.  This was unclear.  The "you're" in this message was directed to
the OP.

cgf

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