On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:18:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Hi Reini, > >On Jul 14 12:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 14 02:33, TB2 wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > It's a fresh vista ultimate 64bit install and I installed cygwin with >> > standard options + irssi, screen and rxvt. Everything working; rxvt and >> > even >> > screen, but irssi crashes instantly upon execution, no matter if I use cmd >> > or rxvt as the shell, or if I start it remotely over ssh. >> > >> > The error code is 0x00000135 >> > File: cygperl5_8.dll >> >> I assume it's 0xC0000135 and it means DLL not found. It looks like you >> need Perl 5.8 for irssi to run. Try to downgrade perl to 5.8.8-4 using >> setup.exe for now. > >this sounds like a serious problem with the new perl release to me. >It breaks backward compatibility be just removing a DLL other packages >might rely upon. If perl 5.10 is meant to be backward compatible with >5.8, shouldn't it offer a cygperl5_8.dll as well, for instance, a >hardlink? However, wouldn't it be better in the long run to have a >cygperl5.dll?
FWIW, this has probably been the #1 problem on #cygwin irc channel at freenode.net. I've been suggesting that people should send email to the correct forum. It's nice (I guess) to see that someone finally did. cgf
