Re: Problem with xterm and cygxft-2.dll after update

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Mark Arnold wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was hoping to get some help with a problem I am now having with my 
> installation.
> Prior to yesterday I hadn't updated my cygwin installation for about 
> about 3 weeks or so.  
> I updated by running the "setup" application and initially downloaded
> everything locally from my favourite mirror, then ran setup again and
> installed what needed to be updated.
> I noticed in the process of updating that the heirarchy changed with 
> the addition of the X11 category and I now have the xorg-x11-XXX packages
> installed (versions 6.7.0.0-X)
>
> The problem is now that when I start "X" and try to run things suck as
> xclock and xterm I get a windows dialog box appearing telling me that 
> xterm is unable to locate the DLL cygXft-2.dll in the specified path
> and lists the search path which includes C:\cygwin\bin, 
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin plus a whole lot of other windows directories.

You need the libXft and libXft2 packages.  I'm not sure why libXft2 was 
not selected automatically.

Harold