Re: XWin won't start because of missing cygfreetype-6.dll

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:20:42PM -0600, Stahlman Family wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me which package contains cygfreetype-6.dll?
>
>
> http://cygwin.com/packages/
>
> Has a package search utility.  You can look for the package there.
>
>
> > I have installed the latest version of Xwin, but when I attempt to
> > start XWindows, I get a Windows error telling me that cygfreetype-6.dll
> > can't be found.  I've installed the freetype2 package, and pretty much
> > all X11-related packages, but the only cygfreetype dll that gets
> > downloaded is cygfreetype-9.dll.
>
>
> Hmm. Sounds like a dependency problem.

cygfreetype-9.dll is in package:
  XFree86-lib-compat
This is the old version.

cygfreetype-6.dll is in package:
  libfreetype26
This is the new version.

Though the file dates and the version of the dll suggests that it is the
other way round.

Gerrit

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