On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:21:15PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2011-04-16 02:34Z, Dov Kruger wrote: >> We have two fairly identical windows XP boxes. On mine, cygwin is working >> beautifully, with X. My coworker tried, but she didn't have admin rights >> and X wouldn't install right. Then she got the coveted admin rights, so we >> tried to re-install. It failed. So we thought we would install clean, >> deleting c:\cygwin and starting over. The installation fails in the >> middle with the following error: > >Because the first attempt failed, I'd do this: > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > >> Microsoft visual c++ runtime library >> Runtime Error! >> Program: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe >> ? This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an >> unusual way 11:09:10 AM > >That's weird: 'cygcheck /bin/bash' should confirm that bash.exe does not >depend on the msvc runtime. Yet there have been a few similar reports: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acygwin.com+"Microsoft+visual+c%2B%2B+runtime+library"; >Based on them, I'd suggest that you
Unfortunately msv*.dll runtime dependencies have crept into some system dlls for some flavors of Cygwin. That is something that Corinna, and to a lesser degree I, have been trying to fix. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
