The newest Cygwin clearly does NOT include this file. I have lots of machines here with lots of different version of cygwin. The date of the file I used is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin> ls -al | grep cygdp -rwxr-x--- 1 dobrin Domain Users 248320 Jul 20 2006 cygdps-1.dll -rwxr-x--- 1 dobrin Domain Users 26112 Jul 20 2006 cygdpstk-1.dll
( I copied both of these files over as I assumed that they were related) I have a machine that still 1.5.18 on it and it has an earlier dated version of these files from 2005, but the same file size as the one I used. My upgrade history is .18 to .21 to .24 to .25 so the file I used was most likely from .21 or .24. Again. I'm not a the maintainer and have no idea what the lib is for (though I suspect it is an adobe Postscript display lib) or which of the many x11 packages included it. /usr/X11R6/bin should be in your path via the $PATH variable. I keep a personal non-system directory in my path via the $PATH variable so that I can move files and libs onto my machine for testing without risking overwriting system installed files. This is where I put these libs and why I suggested that you could put them anywhere that was in the path. I have access to hundreds of machines and I keep my own auto-install/autoupdate builds of cygwin going back a few versions so I personally have these files handy, but I don't know where on the wide wonderful web to get them. I Hope this workaround helps, but Ideally, the maintainer will note this thread and take action. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Lee D. Rothstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:04 PM To: Cygwin Cc: Bruce Dobrin Subject: Re: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll' Bruce Dobrin wrote: > I noticed that others had a problem running GraphicsMagick (gm.exe) on > Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com. It appears > to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely at fault. If you do a > cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed "Error: could not find > cygdpstk-1.dll". I found this on an older XP machine that had been > upgraded to version 1.5.25 from many previous versions of cygwin. Once > I copied this DLL into the path (I found it in /usr/X11R6/bin/) gm > now seems to work fine. I don't know what this DLL is or does, but it > does not appear to be in the currently X11 install. > > So find this Lib somewhere, copy it into the path and gm.exe will start > working. No idea if it will bust anything else though > * My '/usr/X11R6/bin/' has no such file even though I have a complete install of everything, probably because: mine is a relatively new machine, and I have no such "remnants of yore". * I found a dodgey version of 'cygdpstk-1.dll' on the net (-rwxrwxrwx+ 180671 Jan 23 2004 cygdpstk-1.dll). (I checked it with 'strings' and my Virus scanner, first.) Is there a later version? * Do the Cygwin archive servers that appear in the 'setup.exe' list, keep prior versions of the install files? I presume that the ftp servers are accessible thru a standard ftp client? * I do not save the archives that are downloaded to install Cygwin updates (although I do save all my personal configuration information). If one cannot get these old archives off The Net?, perhaps I should rethink my backup strategy? * The "path" you allude to, above, probably should be "$PATH". * BTB, if a user has X windows properly installed, I believe, '/usr/X11R6/bin/' would be in/on the "$PATH". Bruce, Thanks for the tip I changed the subject line because both you and I had misspelled GraphicsMagick in previous posts. (Makes finding the "Rosetta Stone" difficult.) Lee Lee D. Rothstein P.S. Thanks for the 'site:' tip on Google, as well. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/