[Discuss] cygwin desktop, utilities for usb

[Noel Burton-Krahn]

Sorry to give you a bug report, but this is going to be common on systems
that already have cygin installed:

F:\tinycygwin\bin>rxvt
      4 [main] ? (3184) F:\tinycygwin\bin\rxvt.exe: *** fatal error -
F:\tinycyg
win\bin\rxvt.exe: *** system shared memory version mismatch detected -
0x2D1E009
C/0x75BE009C.
This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin
DLL.
Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version
*should*
reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
installed the cygwin distribution.  Rebooting is also suggested if you
are unable to find another cygwin DLL.

See this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg68973.html

Even worse, lots of other Windows apps like Exact Audio Copy, ClamAV, etc
include their own cygwin with their own incompatibilities.  Here's a project
for you:  hack Cygwin so different cygwin versions can coexist!  Maybe make
one shared memory space per version?

~Noel



On 2/21/08, Noel Burton-Krahn <noel at burton-krahn.com> wrote:
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> Nice!  I'm downloading it now for a shot.
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> ~Noel
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> On 2/20/08, D. S. <news.observer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Here is a collection of Cygwin tools and utilities I put together,
> > intended to be run from a USB flash drive.
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> >   http://www.drugsense.org/ds/tiny_cygwin/
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> > It is something I built for my own use, but thought it might be useful
> > to others, too. It is roughly analogous to a Linux distribution (but
> > Cygwin-based).
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