cygwin won't run, missing cygintl-8.dll file - solution that worked for me

[Daniel Cardenas <Daniel dot Car at cox dot net>]

I did an install of cygwin.  When I tried to run the shell I received the problem that cygintl-8.dll was not found.  I
tried various solutions including the ones outlined in below messages without success.  Through the process I also found
that many of the dll's where missing not just cygintl-8.dll.

What finally worked was deleting the cygwin directory and re-installing.

Thanks,
Daniel


    * From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
    * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
    * Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 06:59:33 -0500
    * Subject: Re: cygwin won't run, missing cygintl-8.dll file
    * References: <459A2E95.20408@smartaflow.com> <459A2F82.2080600@aim.com>
    * Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com


On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:10:10AM -0500, Charli Li wrote:
> Gary Richardson just had to cough out the following stream of bytes from
> the specified email client, on 1/2/2007 5:06 AM:
> > Hello,
> >         I've installed cywin before on XP and had no problem.
> >         I've just installed cygwin 1.5.23-2 on Windows XP and when I
> > went to run it I received the msg "Application failed to start because
> > cygintl-8.dll was not found. Reinstalling application may fix this
> > problem." I tried that and it didn't.
> >         I have tried Google and the web and searched the mailing
> > archives but have not found an answer. Could I have a pointer so as to
> > find where to go to fix this. Thanks in advance
>
> Using Windows Explorer, look in C:\cygwin\bin (or wherever else you
> installed it) and check to see if any .dll files have .dll.new instead.
> Rename those that do and run Cygwin again.

Actually, it is safer to just reboot your system, which will cause those
dlls to be renamed automatically.  If you still have this error then go
to http://cygwin.com/packages/ , search for the package which contains
this file and install it by rerunning setup.exe.

cgf


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