Cannot find cygz.dll

Cannot find cygz.dll

[david]

Folks

After many years of very successful CYGWIN installations, I find the 
current one fails when I try the "wget" utility, claiming that 
cygz.dll cannot be found.  I've had to revert back to an old CYGWIN 
that I fortunately retained.

Is there any estimate as to when this might be solved?

Thanks

David


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Re: Cannot find cygz.dll

[Ken Brown]

On 3/31/2017 3:35 PM, david wrote:
> Folks
>
> After many years of very successful CYGWIN installations, I find the
> current one fails when I try the "wget" utility, claiming that cygz.dll
> cannot be found.

Something must have gone wrong with your installation.  cygz.dll is 
provided by the zlib0 package, which is required by wget.  Try 
reinstalling zlib0.

Ken


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Re: Cannot find cygz.dll

[Ken Brown]

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list.

On 3/31/2017 4:15 PM, david wrote:
> At 01:04 PM 3/31/2017, you wrote:
>> On 3/31/2017 3:35 PM, david wrote:
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> After many years of very successful CYGWIN installations, I find the
>>> current one fails when I try the "wget" utility, claiming that cygz.dll
>>> cannot be found.
>>
>> Something must have gone wrong with your installation.  cygz.dll is
>> provided by the zlib0 package, which is required by wget.  Try
>> reinstalling zlib0.
>>
>> Ken
>
>
> I'm not sure how to go about "reinstalling" zlib0.  Is this an option in
> setup?

Yes.  Locate zlib0 in the package listing, and click on the spinner in 
the "New" column until it says "reinstall".

> or do I have to restart the whole 12-hour install?

An install shouldn't take 12 hours, unless you tried to install 
everything and you have a slow network connection.  If you still have 
/var/log/setup.log.full from that install, I suggest you take a look at 
it and see if you can tell why the install took so long.

If you aren't able to resolve the issue and have to write again, please 
attach cygcheck output as explained here:

   https://cygwin.com/problems.html#cygcheck

Ken


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