[ncl-install] ncl in cygwin/X

[Wang, Tongli]

I used "setup-x86_64.exe" because my computer is running 64-bit windows OS. 
I will try "setup-x86.exe".

Thanks,
Tongli

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:37 AM
To: Wang, Tongli
Cc: ncl-install at ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [ncl-install] ncl in cygwin/X

I went to the Cygwin home page and see that they have two different installers now. Which one did you download? setup-x86.exe or setup-x86_64.exe?  I recommend trying the opposite of the one you tried before and see if that works.

If that still doesn't work, then I suggest trying to install version 2.738 of Cygwin if you can find the older versions, until I can get a new Cygwin binary out. (Which won't happen for a month or two).

--Mary


On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Wang, Tongli wrote:

> Sorry, Mary. The version of Cygwin/x I installed is 2.819 instead of 2.189 (my mistake). It is the same version as the one I just download a version following your link bellow.
> 
> Tongli
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:16 AM
> To: Wang, Tongli
> Cc: ncl-install at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] ncl in cygwin/X
> 
> [Tongli and I have been working on this offline.]
> 
> Usually when "ncl" just returns from the Cygwin prompt without any errors or action, this means that the version of Cygwin is old.
> 
> The V6.1.2 Cygwin binary was compiled under Cygwin 2.738. If "2.189" is indeed the Cygwin version that you have, then this is too old.
> 
> You need to download the latest "setup.exe" from http://x.cygwin.com/ and then run this new setup.exe to install a newer version of Cygwin.
> 
> --Mary
> 
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Wang, Tongli wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I installed Cygwin/x (version: 2.189 (64-bit)) and ncl following the instruction at:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml
>> 
>> Everything went through smoothly. However, when test ncl by ncl -V It 
>> does not show "6.1.2" as expected.  It does not show any error message either. It simply came back to UNIX prompt.
>> 
>> I reinstall the whole thing on a different directory, it ended up the same. I could not figure out what went wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tongli
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