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Re: Where is libxml2.dll?


On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote:

> I am running Windows 2003 server with on which I have
> installed cygwin within the last month.
>
> I found a terrific little utility (webdav client) at
> http://www.gohome.org/nd/ which I downloaded and
> compiled (with gcc) with cygwin. At the bash command
> prompt, it appears to work.
>
> However, it is intended to be run from emacs. When I
> create a shell with emacs, it starts up a bash shell
> as a sub process and I get the error: "this
> application has failed to start because libxml2.dll
> was not found. Re-installing the application my fix
> this problem.". Well there is no libxml2.dll on my
> system but the command works from the bash command
> prompt! HOw could this be?
>
> I notice there are libxml2.dll.a and libxml2.a and
> libxml2.la in my /usr/lib directory! This must be the
> one! Why cannot the bash shell find it when run under
> emacs? Do I need to put c:\cygwin\lib in my PATH
> environment variable?
>
>   Thanks,
>       Siegfried

Siegfried,

You don't need c:\cygwin\lib in your path, but you do need c:\cygwin\bin
there if you intend to run Cygwin applications from Win32 ones.
FWIW, the actual name of the DLL is cygxml2-2.dll (which you could have
determined by examining /usr/lib/libxml2.la), but it's surprising that it
looks for libxml2.dll.  Can you start a regular bash shell from Emacs?
Can you run "cygcheck yourapp" from that shell before running "yourapp"?
What does the output of the above cygcheck command show?
	Igor
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