Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Mar 26 21:41:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:44:29PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation
> > > > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links
> > > > with it?
> > >
> > > ... and cygdetect.exe will be placed in /bin :-)
> >
> > That wouldn't matter.  Like cygcheck.exe and setup.exe, it'll be a MinGW
>
> Download like cygcheck.exe ?
> So, then simply download cygcheck.exe and run it with appropriate parameters...
>
> > application, independent of cygwin1.dll.  You'd be able to download it
> > from the web (preferably from cygwin.com), and running it would output the
> > Windows path to /bin.

D'oh!  "Now why didn't I think of that?"^{TM}  :-D
	Igor
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