Hello -- Thanks for the info on the strace command
what I found is that at first, emacs was trying to load cyghogweed-2.dll but what was in the bin directory was cyghogweed-2-2.dll I tried to rename this, but that did not work, so I copied cyghogweed-2.dll from another install of cygwin then it stoped again looking for cygnettle-4.dll but cygnettle-4-4.dll was in the bin directory -- I just copied cygnettle-4.dll to the bin directory and now emacs stated -- what would be the best way fix this? are these dll's part of the emacs package? thanks fpe On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/01/2016 05:08, Frank Esposito wrote: >> >> I am having an problem starting emacs within cygwin/bash -- >> >> I am getting this message >> >> C:/CYGWIN/bin/emacs-X11.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> Is there a way I can debug the startup of emacs to see what is missing? >> env vars? >> >> Thanks > > > this should produce a more clear error message > > strace -o emacs-X11.strace /usr/bin/emacs-X11.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 > -- Frank Esposito -- 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