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Hi

I installed vim 7.1 via cygwin on Windows XP machine. However, when I run
vim on the bash shell of cygwin, I am getting the following error.

E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_riscos
builtin_amiga
builtin_beos-ansi
builtin_ansi
builtin_pcansi
builtin_win32
builtin_vt320
builtin_vt52
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_debug
builtin_dumb
defaulting to 'ansi'

Can anyone help me get rid of this error. This error stays on the screen for
about 3 seconds. Then it disappears and the vim screen appears.

Any ideas?

thanks
raju

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Hi I installed vim 7.1 via cygwin on Windows XP machine. However, when I run vim on the bash shell of cygwin, I am getting the following error. E558: Terminal...
Kamaraju Kusumanchi
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Jun 4, 2007
4:10 am

... Something seems to be wrong with your Cygwin installation. I have installed the vim 7.0 packages from Cygwin, built vim 7.0 from Cygwin sources, and...
Gary Johnson
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Jun 4, 2007
5:26 am

... bash-3.2$infocmp infocmp: couldn't open terminfo file . So this could be a problem. But I dont know how to solve it. The termcap 20050421-1, terminfo...
Kamaraju Kusumanchi
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Jun 4, 2007
3:12 pm

... Yep, that's a problem all right. However, I don't know enough about the Cygwin installation process to know what could have gone wrong. To pursue this...
Gary Johnson
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Jun 4, 2007
8:13 pm

... If that's really the problem, all you have to do is install the libncurses-devel package before running 'configure'. You certainly can use the Cygwin...
Gary Johnson
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Jun 4, 2007
5:34 am

... Probably you are right, installing cygwin source package or binary package will automatically install the required dependencies... and the dependencies...
panshizhu@... Send Email Jun 4, 2007
6:35 am

... Installing a Cygwin source package doesn't seem to automatically install dependencies. I had to track down and install the libncurses-devel package myself...
Gary Johnson
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Jun 4, 2007
6:41 am

... error. ... Generally, this will occur if you download vim source from vim "official" site and compile under cygwin by yourself. Use the version comes from...
panshizhu@... Send Email Jun 4, 2007
5:42 am

... I have neither downloaded vim from the official website nor compiled it myself. I have installed vim only via cygwin's installer. I installed only the...
Kamaraju Kusumanchi
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Jun 4, 2007
1:26 pm
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