Cygwin bail-out: cygexpat-0.dll not found

Thu Jun 16 00:04:00 GMT 2005

At 07:18 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>>after about 3 years of total cygwin abstinence, I'm back. (I had started with b19 :))
>>This is most likely a FAQ, but since most people got this DLL in their log files, a bug report or anything like this is very hard to find with the sparse search options given.
>>Error message is "Dynamic Link Library cygexpat-0.dll not found in specified path".
>This happens when I try to start X Window ("startx"). I know this is not the place to ask X questions, but when I did a Windows search for *expat*, I found something related to Perl or Python, so it does not seem to be an X only issue ...
>>The main problem is that I cannot find out which package this DLL belongs to, so I don't know which package to reinstall. I also remember that I got an error message with setup.exe, but I don't remember anymore which package it was.
>>Cygwin is virgin 1.5.17 (0.129/4/2) on Win2K SP 4.
>Please give me a hint where to search for the bug / problem.

Welcome back! The first thing to do is re-familiarize yourself with the 
Cygwin Web page and it's resources. For this type of problem, you'll
want to use the "Setup Package Search" page <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.
Enter the file you're looking for and it will tell you which packages have 
a match. Use that information in 'setup.exe' to download and install the 
right package. I'll give you a hint on this one. You want the "expat" 
package.
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