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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: emacs-w32 not starting - missing dependency?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9f0713e-b151-6716-e5ee-6225716d595e@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3b9e712-32d1-59ca-d549-9b461865a6a6@cornell.edu>

On 8/19/2016 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/19/2016 6:27 AM, Peter Hull wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I type 'emacs' at the bash prompt, emacs does not start and the
>> prompt re-appears very quickly as if nothing happened. 'emacs -Q' and
>> 'emacs --version' do the same, nothing is printed.
>>
>> My alternatives are set such that emacs points to emacs-w32. I also have
>> emacs-nox and that works fine.
>>
>> If I run 'strace emacs-w32' I get an error dialog:
>>
>> "The procedure entry point WebPDecode could not be located in the
>> dynamic link library C:\cygwin\bin\cygMagickCore-6.Q16-2.dll."
>
> Is your installation of libMagickCore6_2 up to date?  I get
>
> $ objdump -p /usr/bin/cygMagickCore-6.Q16-2.dll | grep WebPDecode
>         48ee2c      8  WebPDecode
>
>> Is this a known problem? If not I can attach cygcheck.out and the output
>> from strace if that will help.
>
> It's not a known problem.

It is now.  I can reproduce the problem (only on 32-bit Cygwin).  I'll 
look into it.

Ken


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-19 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-19 13:55 Peter Hull
2016-08-19 14:17 ` Ken Brown
2016-08-19 18:59   ` Ken Brown [this message]
2016-08-19 20:43     ` Ken Brown
2016-08-19 21:54       ` Ken Brown
2016-08-20 13:27       ` Ken Brown
2016-08-20 16:03         ` Marco Atzeri
2016-08-20 21:12           ` Ken Brown
2016-08-21 21:36             ` emacs-w32 not starting - libgd3 problem Marco Atzeri
2016-08-21 23:33               ` Ken Brown
2016-08-22  8:00                 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-08-22  9:57                 ` Peter Hull
2016-08-22 13:23                   ` Ken Brown

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