Why my Emacs in Cygwin running on Windows Seven, always create Crash Dump?

Question

I quite satisfied of how GNU tools run in my Cygwin on Windows Seven. I think it\'s easier just to use GNU/Linux, but my company here has the policy of using Windows Seven for t

Answer 1

I recently ran into this issue when upgrading my version of Cygwin to 1.7.9-1. pserice's solution looked promising but did not work for me. The solution that worked for me was to run rebaseall:

1. Close ALL Cygwin processes (use Process Explorer to make sure that nothing has cygwin1.dll loaded in it)
2. Start > Run > Cmd.exe
3. cd \cygwin\bin
4. ash
5. PATH=.
6. rebaseall -v

After that, emacs stopped crashing every time it tried to run a subprocess.