Hello -- Thanks for the help -- I don't recall doing anything with cygport -- the one item that can be an issue is that I had cygwin on this computer when the os was XP then I update the OS to Vista -- and did not reinstall cygwin -- just did updates on top of the existing install -- here is the output file requested On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 06/01/2016 17:41, Frank Esposito wrote: >> >> Hello -- >> >> Thanks for the info on the strace command >> >> what I found is that at first, emacs was trying to load >> >> cyghogweed-2.dll > > > it belongs to libhogweed2-2.7-2 > >> >> but what was in the bin directory was >> >> cyghogweed-2-2.dll > > > this is not part of standard cygwin > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cyghogweed-2-2.dll&arch=x86 > > have you mixed up an upgrade with cygport ? > >> I tried to rename this, but that did not work, so I copied >> cyghogweed-2.dll from another install of cygwin >> >> then it stoped again looking for >> >> cygnettle-4.dll > > > libnettle4-2.7-2 > >> >> but >> >> cygnettle-4-4.dll > > > as before > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygnettle-4-4.dll&arch=x86_64 > >> >> was in the bin directory -- I just copied >> cygnettle-4.dll to the bin directory and now emacs stated -- >> >> what would be the best way fix this? are these dll's part of the emacs >> package? >> >> thanks >> >> fpe > > > >>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment > in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode the output. Just > attach it as a straight text file so that it can be easily viewed. > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Frank Esposito