On Sat, Feb 09, 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > I setup Windows XP on my computer (clean install) and so had to setup Lyx > again. However, when I try starting the Cygwin setup program from the > LyxInstall directory, it goes till the root directory (C:/cygwin) question > and then the local package directory (C:/LyxInstall) and then crashes and I > get a Microsoft error message which looks as follows: > > AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll > ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 00034157 >
The problem seems to be that the format of "setup.ini" has changed since the LyX-specific one was created. You need to edit this file (in your LyxInstall directory), adding two lines at the top: setup-timestamp: 1013197208 setup-version: 2.125.2.10 (I copied the above from the setup.ini file from the standard cygwin install directory...I don't think the timestamp matters.) The latest setup.exe file from cygwin gives the error you see if these initial lines are not present. It's too bad the changes in setup are not backwards compatible to earlier setup.ini files. [You could report this to the cygwin list, but be prepared for a nasty-ish reply if you don't include a patch for the setup program at the same time.] ...hope this helps...it worked for me anyway....dac
