[digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question
FLDigi uses the cygwin1.dll file in it's Windows installation. There is a caution in the documentation that it is bad ju ju to have multiple cygwin1.dll files on your computer because they may be different versions and not get along. The docs say the dll needs to be in the same directory as the executable but don't really say how to resolve the issue of needing more than one copy. What's the proper way to handle this? I ask because a search of drive C: shows 6 copies of cygwin1.dll for various applications I use. Thanks, Tim, N9PUZ
Re: [digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question
Hi Tim, Fldigi will look first for the one in the same folder as fldigi.exe, so just make sure the latest is in there and keep them together. The latest public release is 3.11.5, which you can download at http://w1hkj.com/NBEMS/, and includes the latest cygwin1.dll. I doubt if the other programs will look in the folder with fldigi.exe. Just leave the folder intact and create a shortcut from fldigi.exe to the Desktop or elsewhere and you probably already do. You can leave the other cygwin1.dll's where they are. 73, Skip KH6TY Tim N9PUZ wrote: FLDigi uses the cygwin1.dll file in it's Windows installation. There is a caution in the documentation that it is bad ju ju to have multiple cygwin1.dll files on your computer because they may be different versions and not get along. The docs say the dll needs to be in the same directory as the executable but don't really say how to resolve the issue of needing more than one copy. What's the proper way to handle this? I ask because a search of drive C: shows 6 copies of cygwin1.dll for various applications I use. Thanks, Tim, N9PUZ -- *Skip KH6TY* http://KH6TY.home.comcast.net
Re: [digitalradio] FLDigi / Cygwin Question
Thank you Skip. I've been running it that way for a week or and just got around to checking--there are more programs on my machine that use the Cygwin DLL than I had thought. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't on thin ice and didn't know it! Tim, N9PUZ kh6ty wrote: Hi Tim, Fldigi will look first for the one in the same folder as fldigi.exe, so just make sure the latest is in there and keep them together. The latest public release is 3.11.5, which you can download at http://w1hkj.com/NBEMS/, and includes the latest cygwin1.dll. I doubt if the other programs will look in the folder with fldigi.exe. Just leave the folder intact and create a shortcut from fldigi.exe to the Desktop or elsewhere and you probably already do. You can leave the other cygwin1.dll's where they are. 73, Skip KH6TY Tim N9PUZ wrote: FLDigi uses the cygwin1.dll file in it's Windows installation. There is a caution in the documentation that it is bad ju ju to have multiple cygwin1.dll files on your computer because they may be different versions and not get along. The docs say the dll needs to be in the same directory as the executable but don't really say how to resolve the issue of needing more than one copy. What's the proper way to handle this? I ask because a search of drive C: shows 6 copies of cygwin1.dll for various applications I use. Thanks, Tim, N9PUZ
