[ncl-install] ncl in cygwin/X

[Mary Haley]

Hi Tongli,

I downloaded the latest Cygwin on my Windows machine at home using the same version of Cygwin as you.

When  I used "setup-x86_64.exe", I had the same problem as you.

When I used "setup-x86.exe", NCL worked just fine.

Hopefully this will be the solution for you as well.

I will put a note on our Cygwin notes page about this.  This is the first time I've heard of Cygwin having two different versions of "setup.exe".

Thanks for your patience!

--Mary

On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Wang, Tongli wrote:

> 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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