bogofilter on cygwin

[David Relson]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:41:04 +0900
djh wrote:

> Re: Getting started using bogofilter with cygwin.
> System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02
> 
> I dowloaded:   bogofilter-1.0.1.tar.bz2
> Uncompressed it, configured, built, and installed it using all defaults 
> with cygwin's supplied development tools from gnu and possibly other 
> sources.
> 
> Problem:  When tried to run received an error message like the
>           following:
> 
> 	  "When try to execute "cygblas.dll" could not be found."
> 
> Cygwin at any rate has this file in /usr/lib/lapack/cygblas.dll
> For the dll to be found it needs to be in one's path, so I make a
> hard link to it.  A symbolic link didn't work for some reason. I used 
> the following invokation.
> 
>    ln -f /usr/lib/lapack/cygblas.dll /usr/bin/cygblas.dll
> 
>  After this I was able to run bogofilter successfully.
> 
> Regads,
>   Darel Henman

Hello Darel,

Thank you for reporting your success -- and how you surmounted the
problems to achieve it.

Well done!

We've had other reports of bogofilter on cygwin, but you're the first
to mention a DLL issue.

Regards,

David