From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Date: 2003-04-13T19:06:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Cygwin Ruby Woes Hallo Jason, >> "A required .DLL file, CYGWIN1.DLL, was not found." > There are two ways to solve this I know of... > 1. Make sure that the cygwin/usr/bin directory is in your path > 2. copy the .dll to windows/system No! Never copy cygwin1.dll from its assigned place to your system directory! You can have only one cygwin1.dll loaded and as soon as you update your cygwin installation, your installation is broken. Gerrit -- =^..^=