Missing dll's during setup: cygiconv-2, cygpopt

Missing dll's during setup: cygiconv-2, cygpopt

[Richard Lawrence]

Hi,

I am having the same problem as Frank Stajano 
(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00551.html) and extensive 
search of the internet has given me no solution.

I am using the setup.exe file to download all the files to a local 
computer, transfer them to another and then install locally. Yet the 
installer always fails with dialog boxes stating "the dynamic link library 
cygiconv-2.dll could not be found in the specified path". I also get this 
for cygpopt-0.dll, cygicon.dll, cygintl.-2.dll and cygfreetype-6.dll.

Afterwards cygwin fails to run.

In desperation, I tried again, and again with a different mirror and 
finally I downloaded every single file from the FTP server for one of the 
mirrors (which was pretty big) and it still failed.

I've come to the conclusion that either I'm doing something very wrong 
(which, if that is the case, it's not clear on what I should be doing) or 
that setup.exe is broken when you try to install cygwin in this method. 
From an uneducated guess the local download is not actually downloading 
all the files it should.

Can anyone please advise me on what to do?

Thanks,

Richard


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Re: Missing dll's during setup: cygiconv-2, cygpopt

[Robert Collins]

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On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 02:53, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Hi,
...
> I've come to the conclusion that either I'm doing something very wrong 
> (which, if that is the case, it's not clear on what I should be doing) or 
> that setup.exe is broken when you try to install cygwin in this method. 
> From an uneducated guess the local download is not actually downloading 
> all the files it should.

You are either:
a) using an old setup.exe (there was a bug that caused similar
behaviour) or
b) have not downloaded *all* the files. Note that when cygwin is already
installed, you need to use 'reinstall' in download mode to get all the
files required. There are cygwin mirror scripts around for creating a
mirror to install from..

Rob
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