On Jul 28 23:39, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 28.07.2016 um 22:30 schrieb Warren Young: > > On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:00 PM, prabhakar gupta <gupta_prabha...@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > After getting the "installation cocmpleted" message I double clicked on > > > the MINTTY.EXE shortcut and go the following error: > > > "The procedure entry point cancelsynchronousio could not be located in > > > the dynamic link libraryKERNEL32.DLL”. > > Indeed, that Windows API function does not exist on XP: > > > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa363794.aspx > > > > Does this not show that the Cygwin DLL is trying to call it? > I've tested mintty 2.4.2 on cygwin 2.5.2 on Windows XP and it works fine > here.
CancelSynchronousIo is dynamically loaded by the Cygwin DLL up to version 2.5.2. If loading fails, the DLL falls back to other, somewhat unsafe code on pre-Vista. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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