Re: Re-installed cygwin 1.7 but still getting error running Perl

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:14:20AM +0100, Ivanyi Peter wrote:
>> > I am getting this error when I try to run Perl
>> >
>> > $ perl -v
>> > /usr/bin/perl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open
>> > shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Can you please post the result of
>> cygcheck /bin/perl
>
>> I just fixed the wrong setup.hint yesterday,
>> so it could be that you got a broken setup.hint with no dependencies at all.
>> 
>> You need those packages:
>> libgcc1 libgdbm4 libdb4.5 crypt libexpat1 libbz2_1
>> 
>> The mirrors should have been updated also, so you can try to
>> re-install perl, which would pull in the required dependencies
>> automatically.
>
>I have the same problem. I have re-installed the system from scratch, now,
>27th of Dec, from a mirror.
>The output of cygcheck /bin/perl:
>
>cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygssp-0.dll
>
>[ ... ] Abbreviated, but the same appears for several times !!!
>
>cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygssp-0.dll
>
>cygcheck: track_D:\peteri\cygwin\bin\perl.exe
>  D:\peteri\cygwin\bin\cygperl5_10.dll
>    D:\peteri\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
>      D:\peteri\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>        C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>          C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>            C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>          C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>            C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
>    D:\peteri\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
>down: could not find cygssp-0.dll
>
>cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygssp-0.dll
>
>[ ... ] Abbreviated
>
>cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygssp-0.dll
>
>Thanks for any help.

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=libssp0%2Flibssp0-4.3.4-3&grep=cygssp

shows that cygssp-0.dll is in the libssp0 package.  So, install that
package.

cgf

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