I have got Cygwin 1.5.7 or later installed and WinCvs hangs or crashes right on startup. What should I do?
This is a known issue that is caused by the TCL DLL distributed with Cygwin which also affects a few other Windows applications which attempt to load the TCL interpreter DLL, e.g. WinGaim. Apparently the Cygwin flavour of tcl84.dll depends on the Cygwin environment being loaded as well which is not the case for WinCvs and shouldn’t have to be. This causes the host application (in this case WinCvs) to crash or hang while trying to load the DLL. Other than not even trying to load the DLL there isn’t really anything sensible that could be done about this from WinCvs’ point of view (see below). The workaround is to make sure that WinCvs either finds a different tcl84.dll first or none at all. This could be accomplished by any of the following: • Rearrange your PATH environment variable so a folder that contains a non-Cygwin tcl84.dll (recommended is the one included in the standard Python distribution) comes before the Cygwin one. • Uninstall the Tcltk package from your Cygwin installation
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