On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, keinnamens wrote: > I seem to have a cygwin problem that others have had, but the fixes that > worked for them have not fixed my installation. > What further steps can I take to try and fix the error "The procedure > entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link library > cygwin1.dll"? > Thanks. > > Window title: find.exe - Entry point not found > Message: The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the > dynamic link library cygwin1.dll > > Happens when: I launch cygwin or invoke find.exe.
You have an old version of Cygwin on your system. Without knowing more about your Cygwin configuration, the best this list can offer is guesses. > I had a working but limited "default" install of Cygwin on Windows XP. > I ran the installer later, added dev tools, vim, wget, etc. Had some > disconnections after choosing modules before setup.exe did the > downloads. > Because of the disconnects, I used 2 or 3 different mirrors on these > attempts (Maybe I got dlls out-of-sync that way?) > > Posts I've read: FAQ, Problems, and 40 posts (see list below). Oh, good, so you've read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>... Please re-read it and follow the directions in bold (in the third bullet). This will give us enough information to attempt diagnosing the problem. > The gist from other posts: > You have an old version of cygwin1.dll This is the most likely culprit. > You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll ...and one of them is old... > You have cygwin1.dll in a software distribution ...and it is old. > [snip] > Posts that I've read on similar errors: > [snip] > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00307.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00846.html While we admire the amount of research, why would you think that 4- and 7-year-old posts have any relevance anymore? HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
