do you have the DLL's somewhere in your PATH so that the windows lib
loader can find them at runtime ?
e.g. PATH=c:\cygwin\lib ?
Tony
On 12/19/05, Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Pohlmeyer gave me a short program demonstrating the use of the readline
> and history libraries, the program begins:
>
> program histdemo;
> {$LINKLIB ncurses}
> {$LINKLIB readline}
> {$LINKLIB history}
> {$LINKLIB c}
> It works great on Linux but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it
> to work under Cygwin. I have the libraries in c:\cygwin\lib (e.g.,
> libncurses.dll.a) and I have found different forms that allow the program to
> link (e.g., "{$LINKLIB ncurses.dll.a}" or "{$LINKLIB libncurses.dll.a}") but
> when I run the program I get a Windows dialog titled "Unable To Locate
> Component" and displaying "This application has failed to start because
> readline.dll was not found..."
>
> I know very little about Windows programming or linking external libraries...
> any thoughts would be appreciated!
>
> -Alan
>
>
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