Hugs & Cygwin

[Sigbjorn Finne]

[moved to hugs-bugs]
 
"Koen Claessen" <koen@cs.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
...
>
> Then, when I run `hugs', a windows window (!) pops up with
> an error that `cygreadline5.dll' cannot be found. I checked
> in /usr/lib, and there lies a fine libreadline.a, so I do
> not understand why it is using dlls in the first place. (I
> would like to get this fixed though.)
> 

That's because libreadline.a refers to that DLL (i.e., not a Hugs issue,
just the way readline is packaged up under cygwin.) You need to make
sure that the DLL is accessible via your PATH.

> When I reconfigure without --with-readline, an executable is
> generated which dumps core without doing anything else right
> away.
> 

As I said, I can't repro this with the current sources.

--sigbjorn