multiple cygwin1.dlls

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:50:11PM -0800, Steve Kelem wrote:
>I'm having trouble with xfree from
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/pre-alpha-xfree-cygwin-b20.1.tar.bz2
>
>I'm running on Win NT 4.0 SP6 with Cygwin 1.0.
>
>When I try to run "XGGI -targets directx &", I get the message:
>{ASTONMARTIN:kelem:281} g:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XGGI.exe: ***
>conflicting versions of cygwin1.dll detected.  Use only the most recent
>version.
>
>    0       0 [unknown (0x1D8)] (unknown) 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0,
>pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6
>
>In fact, I do have two cygwin1.dll files:
>G:/Cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll
>G:/Cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/cygwin1.dll
>
>It looks like the problem is that I'm running Cygwin 1.0 instead of
>b20.1. What do I have to do to get xfree to run under Cygwin 1.0?

You should follow the helpful directions.  Use only the most recent
version of cygwin1.dll.  In this case, that would be the v1.0 version.
Delete the B20 version.  You don't need it.

cgf