New Installation fails: cygreadline7.dll not found.

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/14/2011 10:51 PM, Richard Troy wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm a long-time Cygwin user and recently got a new Windows 7 box that
> needed to be taught bash and other neat tricks, so naturally I downloaded
> the latest version - 1.7.9-1, I believe - and then did the installation
> from the local repository. I told it to install "absolutely everything".
>
> When it got to the end, the post installation activities failed in
> spectacular fashion. My guess is none of the Cygwin post-installation
> functions were actually performed. The first one to fail was
> /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh, which complained that
> cygreadline7.dll was missing. This was followed by a large number of
> errors substantially identical to that (differing only in what program was
> complaining), and then there were 202 errors where various packages
> complained about some package component returning "exit code -1073741515".
>
> Sure enough, there is no cygreadline7.dll on the box. Hmmm...
>
> ...I figured this must be a common problem, but didn't find it in the FAQ,
> and when I did a search of the e-list, it returned zero matches for
> "cygreadline7.dll" and "missing". A web search yielded no results, either.
>
> I have cygreadline7.dll available on other boxes, in /bin, but the new
> system doesn't have it, and the only file starting with "cygr" in /bin is
> cygrunsrv, yet there are other .dll files in the /bin directory.
>
> Can I / should I merely copy over the cygreadline7.dll from an older
> installation of cygwin? Other comments / ideas?  ...I apologize in advance
> if I missed something obvious.

I recommend running 'setup.exe' again and selecting 'libreadline7' from the
list of packages.  That should help.

-- 
Larry

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