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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:29:46+00:00

So I’m trying to run my first hello world prog written in C. I

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So I’m trying to run my first hello world prog written in C. I compiled it in eclipse and get no errors, but when I try to run it I get:

‘This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.’

I found this post which seems to indicate I should add it to Windows PATH, and I used this to do that. So now ‘Path’ in my environment variables has ‘;C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll’ appended to the end. Still no worky. Anyone have a clue what I might be doing wrong? My ‘program’ just looks like this: 

#include <stdio.h>  main() {     printf('hello, world\n'); }
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  1. The PATH environment variable needs to include the directory containing cygwin1.dll, not the path to cygwin1.dll itself. So just make sure that PATH has the string 'C:\cygwin\bin' in it.

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