[ANNOUNCEMENT] texlive 20160520-4

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * texlive-20160520-4 * libkpathsea6-20160520-4 * libkpathsea-devel-20160520-4 * libptexenc1-20160520-4 * libptexenc-devel-20160520-4 * libsynctex1-20160520-4 * libsynctex-devel-20160520-4 * libtexlua52_5-20160520-4 * libtexlua52

Re: Installing Cygwin on XP-SP3 with setup-x86.exe 2.874

On 11/6/16, Tom P wrote: > Hi all, first time posting. > > I first installed Cygwin a few months ago on my XP SP3 machine, don't > know much about Linux but wanted to use ddrescue to image some disks > and I found it to work great! Thanks for this great solution! > > The other day I wanted to add

Re: Windows 10 updates causes fork retry no child processes

Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 03.11.2016 um 07:06 schrieb Gerry Reno: What is needed is for Cygwin itself to detect and manage the situation. That is technically impossible. The DLL rebasing procedure can only be done from _outside_ Cygwin. --- Oh? The Dll rebasing needs to

New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

Hi, I have cygwin utilities installed on an upgraded/enhanced Win-XP box. There are several reasons (too much to go into here), that I need to maintain this new box, but run it with the original Win-XP/SP3 O/S. It would be nice if I could access some of the Cygwin utilities that I do not have. I

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote: > I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked > with Windows-XP. > I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails. Quite > unfortunate, as this > will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin. > Short

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

Greetings, Rus! > Hi, > I have cygwin utilities installed on an upgraded/enhanced Win-XP box. WinXP is not supported. Complain as you wish, write as long a posts as you were, it won't change. If you need old, outdated and unsupported OS, go into old, outdated and unsupported Cygwin Time Machine.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libstatgrab 0.91-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * statgrab-0.91-1 * libstatgrab10-0.91-1 * libstatgrab-devel-0.91-1 * libstatgrab-doc-0.91-1 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] muparser 2.2.5-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libmuparser2-2.2.5-1 * libmuparser-devel-2.2.5-1 muParser is an extensible high performance math expression parser library written in C++. It works by transforming a mathematical expression into bytecode and precalculating

[ANNOUNCEMENT] LXQt 0.11.0

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libfm-qt3-0.11.1-1 * libfm-qt-devel-0.11.1-1 * liblxqt0-0.11.0-1 * liblxqt-devel-0.11.0-1 * liblxqt-globalkeys0-0.11.0-1 * liblxqt-globalkeys-devel-0.11.0-1 * libQt5Xdg2-2.0.0-1 * libQt5Xdg-devel-2.0.0-1 * libQt5XdgIconLoader

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libxkbcommon 0.6.1-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libxkbcommon0-0.6.1-1 * libxkbcommon-devel-0.6.1-1 * libxkbcommon-doc-0.6.1-1 xkbcommon is a library to handle keyboard descriptions, including loading them from disk, parsing them and handling their state. It's mainly meant

python-gdal is broken by libproj9 4.9.3-1 update

Hello, in python-gdal 2.1.1-1 _gdal.dll still uses cygproj-9.dll, but it was replaced with cygproj-12.dll in libproj9 4.9.3-1 so the import fails.   I was able to get a working system by downgrading libproj9 to 4.9.2-1 and libgeotiff2 to 1.4.1-1. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl