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Re: Where is libxml2.dll?


At 02:18 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote:
>Problem fixed! I had to put c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in
>my system path. 


OK.


>I did not realize that c:\cygwin\bin
>(which was already in my path) was different than
>c:\cygwin\usr\bin.


It's not really.  Cygwin mounts /bin as /usr/bin.  See
the output of 'mount' for clarification.

I'm not sure that I see the significance of this
realization as part of the solution to your problem
though.


>Why are there two bin directories?


See above.


>    Siegfried
>
>
>--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@xxxx.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:
>> 
>> > See below:
>> >
>> > --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@xx.xxx.xxx> wrote:
>> > > Siegfried,
>> > >
>> > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.
>> > > Thanks.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how to do that so I did it by hand.
>> Good
>> > point.
>> 
>> That's about the only way to do this from a Yahoo
>> Mail interface...
>> Thanks for the effort.
>> 
>> > > It does sound like you do need to put
>> "C:\cygwin\bin" in your Windows
>> > > PATH, and make sure it gets propagated to Emacs.
>>  Alternatively, you
>> > > could try to get Emacs to run "bash -l" as its
>> shell (don't ask me
>> > > how, I don't use Emacs).
>> > >   Igor
>> >
>> > I just checked and C:\cygwin\bin is already in the
>> > path. Any other ideas?
>> >   Thanks,
>> >      Sieg
>> 
>> Well, according to the output of cygcheck, you have
>> two nd.exe's, and
>> c:\util\nd.exe doesn't seem to be the same as
>> c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\nd.exe...  The one in
>> c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>> seems to have correct DLL dependencies, so that's
>> the one you should use.
>> 
>> Judging from the fact that emacs couldn't find
>> /usr/local/bin/nd.exe, I'd
>> say you need to have c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in your
>> PATH within emacs,
>> too.
>> 
>> Or, as I suggested earlier, you could instruct emacs
>> to start bash with a
>> --login (-l) flag.  Someone fluent in emacs can
>> probably help you with it
>> better than I.
>>   Igor
>> 
>> > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Igor,
>> > > >  That is a handy command! here is the results
>> (from the emacs
>> > > > compile command:
>> > > >
>> > > > cd c:/busines/
>> > > > cygcheck nd.exe
>> > > > Found: c:\util\nd.exe
>> > > >
>> > > > c:/util/nd.exe
>> > > >   C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>> > > >     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>> > > >       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>> > > >         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>> > > >       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>> > > > Error: could not find libxml2.dll
>> > > >
>> > > > Here is the same command from the bash command
>> window:
>> > > > Administrator@fasolt ~ $ cygcheck nd
>> > > > Found: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\nd.exe
>> > > > Found: c:\util\nd.exe
>> > > > C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/nd.exe
>> > > >   C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>> > > >     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>> > > >       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>> > > >         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>> > > >       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>> > > >   C:\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll
>> > > >     C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>> > > >     C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
>> > > >
>> > > > When I removed nd.exe from c:\util the bash
>> shell
>> > > > running under emacs could not find nd.exe.
>> > > >
>> > > > Anybody know why?
>> > > > Anybody know how to fix this?
>> > > >
>> > > >   Thanks,
>> > > >
>> > > >      Siegfried
>> > > >
>> > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX>
>> wrote:
>> > > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > I am running Windows 2003 server with on
>> which I have installed
>> > > > > > cygwin within the last month.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I found a terrific little utility (webdav
>> client) at
>> > > > > > http://www.gohome.org/nd/ which I
>> downloaded and compiled (with
>> > > > > > gcc) with cygwin. At the bash command
>> prompt, it appears to
>> > > > > > work.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > However, it is intended to be run from
>> emacs. When I create a
>> > > > > > shell with emacs, it starts up a bash
>> shell as a sub process and
>> > > > > > I get the error: "this application has
>> failed to start because
>> > > > > > libxml2.dll was not found. Re-installing
>> the application my fix
>> > > > > > this problem.". Well there is no
>> libxml2.dll on my system but
>> > > > > > the command works from the bash command
>> prompt! HOw could this
>> > > > > > be?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I notice there are libxml2.dll.a and
>> libxml2.a and libxml2.la in
>> > > > > > my /usr/lib directory! This must be the
>> one! Why cannot the bash
>> > > > > > shell find it when run under emacs? Do I
>> need to put
>> > > > > > c:\cygwin\lib in my PATH environment
>> variable?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >   Thanks,
>> > > > > >       Siegfried
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Siegfried,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > You don't need c:\cygwin\lib in your path,
>> but you do need
>> > > > > c:\cygwin\bin there if you intend to run
>> Cygwin applications from
>> > > > > Win32 ones. FWIW, the actual name of the DLL
>> is cygxml2-2.dll
>> > > > > (which you could have determined by
>> examining
>> > > > > /usr/lib/libxml2.la), but it's surprising
>> that it looks for
>> > > > > libxml2.dll.  Can you start a regular bash
>> shell from Emacs? Can
>> > > > > you run "cygcheck yourapp" from that shell
>> before running
>> > > > > "yourapp"? What does the output of the above
>> cygcheck command
>> > > > > show?
>> > > > >   Igor
>> 
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