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/
RE: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll'
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.
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Re: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll'
Bruce Dobrin wrote: 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. The version of Cygwin is irrelevant. /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. This is a very old issue, and it's come up numerous times. Here is a message from 2006: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-11/msg1.html. Note that this is off-topic for the Cygwin list as are all X11 topics. And there is no X11 maintainer, so don't expect this to change until that is resolved, which is part of the reason why this has been this way for the last 3 years or so. Brian -- 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/
