Cygwin bail-out: cygexpat-0.dll not found

[Larry Hall]

At 07:18 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>after about 3 years of total cygwin abstinence, I'm back. (I had started with b19 :))
>
>This is most likely a FAQ, but since most people got this DLL in their log files, a bug report or anything like this is very hard to find with the sparse search options given.
>
>Error message is "Dynamic Link Library cygexpat-0.dll not found in specified path".
>This happens when I try to start X Window ("startx"). I know this is not the place to ask X questions, but when I did a Windows search for *expat*, I found something related to Perl or Python, so it does not seem to be an X only issue ...
>
>The main problem is that I cannot find out which package this DLL belongs to, so I don't know which package to reinstall. I also remember that I got an error message with setup.exe, but I don't remember anymore which package it was.
>
>Cygwin is virgin 1.5.17 (0.129/4/2) on Win2K SP 4.
>Please give me a hint where to search for the bug / problem.



Welcome back!  The first thing to do is re-familiarize yourself with the 
Cygwin Web page and it's resources.  For this type of problem, you'll
want to use the "Setup Package Search" page <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.
Enter the file you're looking for and it will tell you which packages have 
a match.  Use that information in 'setup.exe' to download and install the 
right package.  I'll give you a hint on this one.  You want the "expat" 
package.



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