cmake install; required cyglz4-1.dll not installed in /usr/bin or anywhere else

[Jon Turney]

Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email, particularly 
the section starting "Shouldn't I just send email to straight to a 
Cygwin developer or package maintainer?"

On 05/12/2017 00:37, Vijaya Subramanian wrote:
> When I try to run cmake, I get the following error message:
> C:/cygwin64/bin/cmake.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>   
> I found online that the solution was run "cygcheck cmake" and see if there are missing dll files. It does say cyglz4_1.dll is missing.If there is any other reason why running cmake gives the above error message, I'ld be happy to implement the solution/fix.
> Thanks in advanceVijaya

The dependency on liblz4 exists, so setup should have installed this 
package.

It might be worthwhile looking at /var/log/setup to see if there are any 
indications of why this didn't happen.

>      On Sunday, December 3, 2017, 10:15:59 AM MST, Jon Turney wrote:
>   
>   On 03/12/2017 17:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> cyg Simple writes:
>>> One might ask that if setup stated it updated the package why it doesn't
>>> exist and why reinstalling it would be needed?
> 
> Perhaps setup has bugs? :)
> 
>> The real question is:Â  Why does cmake not require liblz4_1 if it depends
>> on it?  That is the most likely reason why the package wasn't installed
>> to begin with and hence an update wouldn't do anything about it.
> 
> The dependency is cmake -> libarchive13 -> liblz4_1


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple