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19 years ago

Cygwin1.dll problem at build time

Hello All, I am getting this obnoxious message when I try building the example programs, including "Hello World". I get this message - "the procedure entry point pthread_mutex_lock could not be...
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19 years ago

had the same problem after installation of cygwin.

seems to be a problem with different cygwin dll versions.

search for cygwin1.dll, check your path and remove the part where

it finds the wrong dll.

i use a tool "pathman.exe" (windows resource kit) to switch the paths

and sometimes i simply rename my cygwin directotry to _cycwin,

so that it cannot find the dll in this directory.