From: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin on XP-SP3 with setup-x86.exe 2.874
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD8GWstJggkU5LX2dWUoiz=zvB-9OONhcap1mSfS32uFXoqAAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADU-UXHnh=eN+aQhNP3HAVKehmeqENypCQ+3RquV3uYEWYZmMA@mail.gmail.com>
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 the lsblk command, which I tried by
> running setup-x86.exe again and searching for a lsblk package to add,
> but after installing packages it broke Cygwin completely.
Right. The current version of cygwin doesn't support WinXP.
> Now I get the following error when trying to run it:
> "mintty.exe - Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point
> CancelSynchronousIo could not be located in the dynamic link library
> KERNEL32.dll"
>
>
> Is there a way to get v2.874 of setup-x86.exe to only download the
> older, XP-compatible packages? Because right now aside from the fact
> the first few steps of the installer actually run, 2.874 doesn't
> really work on XP either.
Probably not.
I don't know which would be better - trying to revert everything that
was upgraded or wipe the install and start over from scratch. Either
way, you need to use the cygwin time machine
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
to install/update cygwin on winXP.
Regards,
Lee
> As a warning to anyone else running Cygwin on XP - I'm guessing my big
> mistake was not noticing and leaving the default option of "Curr"
> checked, which means update all parts of Cygwin to the latest version?
> I should have selected "Keep", so that only the new lsblk package I
> wanted would be downloaded?
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