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Re: help on running c program on cygwin
- From: mbuch at IFF572 dot IFF dot KFA-JUELICH dot DE
- To: Lily Tsai <oneray at rupture dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:19:57 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: help on running c program on cygwin
- Reply-to: m dot buchmeier at fz-juelich dot de
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Lily Tsai wrote:
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:26:23 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Lily Tsai <oneray@rupture.net>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: help on running c program on cygwin
>
>
> I just installed Cygwin on XP and tried running a simple helloworld in c.
> After a good compilation using gcc, I get nothing when trying to run the
> outputfile.
>
> $gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld.exe
>
> $helloworld.exe
>
>
> nothing.
>
> When I double-click on the helloworld.exe icon on Windows Explorer, I get
> an error prompt:
>
> "This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.
> Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
>
>
> So, I re-installed and nothing changed.
>
> Can you help?
>
You must add at least the cygwin/bin directory to your windows
path. Try to start the program from inside cygwin (the shell).
> Thanks in advance,
> Lily
>
>
>
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