Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

[Rolf Campbell]

You mean "cygpath -w -p /bin", because he said "I need to determine the 
native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll"

John Morrison wrote:
> You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for
> a script...
> 
> cygpath -w -p /
> 
> works for me :)
> 
> J.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
>>Of John Dallaway
>>Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm
>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
>>
>>
>>I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation 
>>programatically. More precisely, I need to determine the native 
>>path to the 
>>directory containing cygwin1.dll from outside the Cygwin environment. I 
>>could interrogate the registry for mount points, but in the worst case I 
>>would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and 
>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for 
>>both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method?
>>
>>John Dallaway
>>
>>
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