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I'm trying to get meld to run on Cygwin 64 (just updated - September 2021), on Windows 10. Some relevant package versions:

  • meld: 3.18.0-1
  • python3: 3.8.6-1
  • python36: 3.6.13-2
  • python2: 2.7.18-4

I'm also using MobaXTerm's X server (and it works - I can run xclock for example.)

I've resolved this initial issue, by running meld using Python 3.6. Still, when I try to run meld, this happens:

$ meld
process 14421: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; 
failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted (core dumped)

How is my d-bus library "incorrectly set up"? How to I correct its setup? And how do I get meld to finally run?

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It seems dbus is simply not installed. Install the dbus Cygwin package, and meld should work. However, startup time might be long, so wait for it patiently.

You may or may not also need to install some of the following additional packages: libdconf-dbus1-devel, libdconf-dbus1_0, python-dbus-devel, python36-dbus, python38-cairo, python38-dbus, python38-gi.

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