I have downloaded and run the Cygwin setup.exe installer. After a long period of downloading files, it created a directory tree containing ./bin, /lib, etc sub-dirs, with files, in the normal fashion.
However, there was no cygwin1.dll on my disk at the end - big problem. No error message in the setup log either. I tried removing my install and reinstalling from the local cache dir. Failed again. Then I tried downloading a newer version of setup.exe, but no progress. Im not the only one having this problem: type "cygwin1.dll missing" or "cygwin1.dll 'not found'" into google and you will see this fault happens a bit. Unfortunate;y, no replies with any useful problem resolution. An attempt to search the cygwin mailing lists for clues got me a "500 Internal Server Error" - something is wrong there too. A complete re-download takes hours on my modem. I dont want to do this, download megs of files I have already, just because the installer got a bit braindead and forgot the most important file! Given that cygwin install docs basically say: "Download setup and run it.", setup had better *just work*. It didnt for me, and for a number of others. Right now, I have no idea why. Regards Ben __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/