Why does cygwin not install properly on windows 7 (32 bit)? i've googled it and all I've found is a scatterring of similar issues and no suggestions. Why isn't there a FAQ?
I have the same error messages as David Means (23 Sep 2010), and I've tried to install cygwin with all the version compatibility & run-as-administrator options that windows 7 has to offer. What gives??? I've had it working on XP and on Vista...and win7 after my vista install was upgraded to a win7 preview release... (but there i didn't have to do the installation from scratch)... So what is the magic recipe for installing cygwin on a fresh copy of windows...and how come the cygwin setup.exe program doesn't detect and fix the problem that I keep having... has anyone put together a more-windows-compatible installation method (that also happens to come with a working uninstaller?) Gimp...pidgin...and lots of other free software tools have better installers... I hope this doesn't seem toooooo grumbly, but it seems like such a huuuuuge problem (can't install on major OS) that i'm astounded that months after multiple reports there's not even a FAQ or something... I would be grateful for a fix... > Install failure on Windows 7 > > From: David Means <w1t3h4t at gmail dot com> > To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:47:12 -0400 > Subject: Install failure on Windows 7 > > On Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit. > > For al post-install actions, there are a log entries such as follows: > > 2010/09/23 11:21:58 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc > --noprofile /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh > 2010/09/23 11:22:06 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515 > 2010/09/23 11:22:06 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc > --noprofile /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh > 2010/09/23 11:22:07 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515 > 2010/09/23 11:22:07 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc > --noprofile /etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh > 2010/09/23 11:22:07 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515 > 2010/09/23 11:22:07 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc > --noprofile /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh > 2010/09/23 11:22:08 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515 > 2010/09/23 11:22:08 running: C:\cygwin175\bin\bash.exe --norc > --noprofile /etc/postinstall/bash.sh > > And a dialog is posted to the UI, reporting a failure: > > "The program can't start because cyggcc_s-1.dll is missing from your > computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." > > I tried re-install, but to no avail. > > Suggestions? > > > --- > David Means -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple