On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:25:41AM +0000, Mark Geisert wrote: >sunil kumar writes: >>I downloaded and installed the latest Cygwin from site. But after >>installation while executing Cygwin, i got the following error. >> >>"This application has failed to start because cygncurses-8.dll was not >>found, Re-installing the application may fix this problem." >> >>What may be the cause? > >Let's leave that for later. Somebody else may chime in with the >answer. For now:
? Isn't the answer excruciatingly obvious? You're missing something with the name "ncurses" in it so you have to install a package which contains that file. Use http://cygwin.com/packages to find the file. >>After that i downloaded the specified DLL file from one site and put it >>in cygwin\bin folder. After this step, i got another problem which is >>saying that > >I wonder which site it was. But in any case: Yeah, probably the same site which somehow caused the libncurses8 not to be installed. cgf -- 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/
