xinit: The application has failed to start because cygfreetype-6.dll was not found.

[Harold L Hunt II]

Steinar,

You need the libfreetype26 package, which is gotten by selecting the 
freetype2 package.  It should have been automatically selected, but it 
looks like it wasn't in your case.

Also, make sure that you have the fontconfig package (it auto-selects 
libfontconfig0).

Harold

Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>>Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>:
> 
> 
> (I'm not Constantine, but I see the same problem)
> 
>>However, I want to know what application was failing in your xinit
>>scripts.  There should not be an application that requires
>>cygfreetype-9.dll in the default script.  Have you modified your
>>script?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I've added two xterms doing an ssh -X into linux boxes I always work
> on, and there is a sleep between each xterm start.
> 
> 
>>What program are you launching that requires this DLL? 
> 
> 
> The dialog that pops up, has the title:
> 	XWin.exe - Unable To Locate DLL
> 
> 
>>Are you launching emacs?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> I did the update today.
>