17 Jul 15:00
ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1
From: Andy Rushton <quergle-cygwin <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
Date: 2006-07-17 13:01:18 GMT
Subject: ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
Date: 2006-07-17 13:01:18 GMT
Hi all, I have found a problem with ImageMagick 6.0.4 running with xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1 - and I've found a temporary fix. Problem: After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, which updated the X11 packages amongst many other things, the 'convert' program stopped working. It simply exited silently with an error status. I discovered with gdb that it was failing with an unknown exception but I could find no more information. It turned out, thanks to running 'cygcheck convert', that this was because of a missing DLL, specifically /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll. A bit more digging and I found that this DLL used to be part of package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release - 6.8.99.901-1. It existed in all versions (as far as I have been able to find out) up to this one. I also discovered that this DLL itself relies on another missing DLL: /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll which I found in the same package. Work-around: I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and hand-installing them by copying them into the relevant directory. Fortunately they are still compatible with the other DLLs they depend on.(Continue reading)
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