Where is cygwin installed - automatic query
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
lhall@rfk.com
Tue Feb 20 16:17:00 GMT 2001
OK I get it. You can look under the keys I mentioned for the "/" mount point,
find the Win32 equivalent path, and append that with "usr\bin" to get the
path to all Cygwin executables.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
At 07:00 PM 2/20/2001, Stephen Smith wrote:
>Uh ... yes and no. We will use setup to install cygwin. Then we will use crossGCC.exe to install the cross compiler
>where the location is c:\somedirectory and the mount point is /usr/local/somedirectory. Of course the location is
>selectable from a dialog box.
>
>To create the mount point, /usr/local/somedirectory, I need the mount command. But the directory containing mount.exe
>isn't in the path environment variable.
>
>sps
>
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> > At 06:20 PM 2/20/2001, Stephen Smith wrote:
> > >I am writing an installshield script to install a cross-compiler for some of our users. The standard cygwin install
> > >doesn't update the path variable to include the cygnus executables. Since I need to perform a mount, I need to know
> > >where the Cygnus is installed.
> > >
> > >Is there a registry key I should be looking for.
> >
> > I guess I'm confused about what you're looking for. So are you going to use
> > setup to install Cygwin and then use your own install program to install the
> > cross-compiler? If so, you don't need to do any mount. Setup does this
> > for you. You can find these mount points under
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
> >
> > - or -
> >
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
> >
> > Is this what you're trying to do?
> >
> > Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
> > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
> > 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> >
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