Cygwin\XFree86 missing DLL, libz.dll

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Which version of Xfree86?  4.1.0?  If so, it should use cygz.dll which ships
with Cygwin.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Levi Senft [ mailto:levisenft@home.com ]
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 8:36 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cygwin\XFree86 missing DLL, libz.dll
> 
> I just installed Cygwin and Xfree86.  When I run "startx" from bash I get
> the following error message at the command line:
> 
> $ startx
> 
> 
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> And a window pops up with the title "XWin.exe - Unable to Locate DLL".
> The
> message says "The dynamic link libary libz.dll could not be found in the
> specified path"  Then gives all the paths.  I did a search and found
> libz.dll.a in c:\cygwin\lib so I included it in the path in /etc/profile.
> 
> Has any one else had this problem?  Any help would be much appreciated.