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Re: Trouble compiling C++ package


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Richard Querin wrote:

>>
>> I have seen this mention of cygwin1.dll being in the windows\system32
>> directory several times during cygwin upgrades and installations.
>> However each time the dialog comes up and I choose to delete it, it
>> says it can't. And whenever (including now) I manually check the
>> system32 directory, both from the command line and with Windows
>> Explorer, I don't see the cygwin1.dll file in there. I'm not sure why
>> it's saying it's in there when it's clearly not.
>
> Make sure you're not hiding system DLLs, etc.
>
>> However, Warren's mention of Sonic might be of use. I do have a Sonic
>> product installed, so I'm going to try and get rid of it and try
>> again. There are a few local copies of cygwin1.dll on my system. (one
>> for a pdfmerge program I use for instance). Will deleting those local
>> copies render the programs non-functional?
>
> Keep the path to 'cygwin1.dll' in your path and you'll have no problem.
>
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Thanks for all the help. I went over and over this machine looking for
the cygwin1.dll file in the system32 directory but it wouldn't show
up. I have explorer set to show me all system and hidden files too,
but it wouldn't show up. On a whim, I decided to use my cygwin bash
shell to check out the folder myself and lo and behold after doing an
ls -la c*.dll command, there it was.. with an unidentifiable time and
date. It was marked read-only and I deleted it. Problem solved!

Thanks again.

ps - I removed all the Sonic products as well as disabled McAfee and
Windows Defender, but doing this didn't solve the problem either. It
was definitely the hidden dll file.

RQ

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