mbrtoc32 not found following update.

[Eliot Moss]

On 7/30/2024 8:58 PM, Eric J Korpela via Cygwin wrote:
> Following an update of the packages I have installed, multiple programs are
> failing silently when executed from the shell, especially "man" and "wget".
> 
> If I run them under strace, I get a pop-up window stating "The procedure
> entry mbrtoc32 could not be located in the dynamic link library ..."  For
> man the library is "cygman-2-12-1.dll".  For wget the library is "wget.exe".
> 
> I assume this means that something didn't update properly and that
> reinstalling one package would solve, but I don't see any indication in the
> logs of a failure.  I'd rather not reinstall everything to fix the problem,
> if possible.
> 
> Any thoughts on how where I should look?

Caveat: I am far from expert on this ...

Your cygcheck.out does not list a man.exe or wget.exe.  I am not sure how
the strace got as far as it did.  But I suggest reinstalling those two
programs.  Not sure how those exe's got zapped.  Maybe an installation
upgrade did not complete properly ...

HTH - Eliot Moss