On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 12:34:25AM -0400, ping wrote: >folks/experts: >I just successfully recompiled vim with GUI support under cygwin. >so now gvim is OK if I launch it from cygwin terminal (yes I have X running) >then I'm trying to make it the default text editor for my window7 >application >(like outlook, to open attachment), but then I got a dialog saying: >"the program can't start because cygwin1.dll is missing from your computer. >Try installing the program to fix this problem." >the same thing happened when I try launch gvim from a dos terminal. >is there any known solution for this? >I did some research but can't solve it.
The "known solution" would be to add the directory where the cygwin DLL resides (probably c:\cygwin\bin) to your Windows PATH environment variable. An even better solution would be to just install the standard gvim via setup.exe. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
