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Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll


Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

Alexander wrote:

Alex, thanks for the pointers, but please review my comments, below.

>>> Robert McNulty Junior wrote:


>>>>> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com


>>>>> Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)
>>>>> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert McNulty Junior wrote:

>>>>>> > Trying to figure out why GTK is telling me cygX11-6.dll (or something like
>>>>>> > that) is missing.


I get the same error.

>>> Do you have the xorg-x11-bin-dlls packages installed?

Yes!

>>> If yes please try to reinstall that package.

No help.

>>> We had some reports that installing that package
>>> for the first time may have some files not installed/remove by other packages.


Wrongo!

>There is a bug in the postinstall script, if cygwin/X11R6/bin is not in
>the system path, the DLL is not found.

False. On my system:
 <CYGWIN_ROOT>/X11R6/bin is set in the 'PATH' by:
 - MS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
 - CYGWIN.BAT
 - profile

>Setup doesn't include this path and windows doesn't know about
>it, I'll provide an update this week (or weekend), this will
>include also dependencies to libintl3 instead of libintl2.

>Workaround is to reexecute the postinstall script from a bash shell with
>X11R6/bin included in the PATH setting:

> 'sh /etc/postinstall/gtk-x11.sh.done'

Also, false.

Correct invocation is, I believe:

sh /etc/postinstall/gtk2-x11.sh.done

>Gerrit



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