The number I posted, DLL version: 1.5.18, works for me as well. I guess we have a small research project here, if anyone else has trouble...or maybe it will just disappear as people use newer cygwins.
MS barbaran wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Yes, I remember you answered to my question, and I followed the topic on > the forum and I sae about 4 or 5 persons complaining about this issue, that > is not too much, and I'm not sure if it happens in every Windows. > > As you suggested, I ran cygcheck -s and the version of the DLL is 1.7.7, I > don't know which one was the older one, but I guess it could be the one you > put in your email. I agree with you, it would be a nice idea that everybody > that has experienced this error could post the DLL version so we can know > if it is a general error. > > Our experience here in Málagais that people that tries to install it and > find any problem move on to VMWare installation, probably that is why not > too many people has post the problem. > > Regards and thank you for the quick answer, > > Javier. > > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:30:39 -0700, Michael Schippling <sc...@santafe.edu> > wrote: >> I suppose it's too late to look at your old install, >> but can you run this in your new cygwin shell: >> >> cygcheck -s >> >> It will dump out a lot of info about paths and version >> numbers, one of which should be the base dll ID, like: >> >> Cygwin DLL version info: >> DLL version: 1.5.18 >> >> AFAIK, this is as close as one can get to a cygwin version ID. >> >> Perhaps others who have "error 57" problems can do the same >> and we may be able to get some traction on this. I haven't >> followed carefully, but I seem to remember the error being >> intermittent for some people. Is/was that true? >> >> MS >> >> >> barbaran wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Around March of this year I posted a problem when trying to program a >>> mote >>> using TinyOS installed over cygwin, and I got error 57 when using uisp. >>> Other folks told me that they had the same problem even in Windows XP > or >>> 7, >>> but no one solution came up, so in that days a take the option of >>> installing VMware, but now I dont want to use it anymore, so I searched >>> into avr forums, and it seems that installing a new version of cygwin >>> everything would be all right. >>> >>> Yesterday I tried again, using Windows 7, so... firstly, I installed >>> tinyos using cygwin and rpms available, from the tinyos website, I got >>> the >>> error 57 problem when trying to test Blink application into a micaZ. >>> Then, >>> without uninstalling anything, I downloaded a new version cygwin and >>> installed it over the other one, after a while installing (as the >>> installation program download every cygwin's package separately) I > didn't >>> notice any difference with cygwin and neither with tinyos as all the >>> packages were still installed, and when I tried to program, everything >>> works fine!! >>> >>> So, this e-mail it is only for those who get the error 57 when trying > to >>> program a sensor, so they only need to update the cygwin, I think the >>> reason is that some windows update is creating some problem with the >>> tinyos >>> website cygwin version, so yu only need to update it to the latest. >>> >>> I would also propose to the tinyos website administrator to change the >>> cygwin installer reference, or at least put a comment about this, > because >>> this problem could be causing some people that want to use TinyOS into >>> Windows to use other o.s. or have a mess trying to install vmware or > even >>> installing a Linux. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Javier Barbarán >>> barba...@lcc.uma.es >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tinyos-help mailing list >>> Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu >>> > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
