taskkill - error while loading shared libraries - LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Thu Mar 4 00:20:00 GMT 2010

On 3/3/2010 6:12 PM, Robert Mark wrote:
> Hi All,
>> No one else has seen this sort of issue before?
>>> I have upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3)
>> 2009年12月07日 11:48) and am having trouble running a windows commands
>> that I use a lot as part of Cygwin. For example, when I use taskkill I
>> get:
>>>> /c/WINDOWS/system32/taskkill.exe: error while loading shared
>> libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>>>> I have read some posts from this list and seen discussion around
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH being the path for DLLs. In my environment the
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is not set. I try "export
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PATH" but that doesn't fix the issue either.
>>>> Any advice as to how I can get this working would be most appreciated!

Since taskkill is a Windows app and not a Cygwin one, there is no
benefit to fiddling with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, even if Cygwin apps
would otherwise be affected by it (they won't be). I find the
terminology of the error you see to particularly interesting, since it
doesn't look like your standard Windows error report and certainly
doesn't match the format I see when I force taskkill to error out.
But that's a MS issue/oddity that's better addressed in a Windows
forum.
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