Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

[Andrew DeFaria]

Elfyn McBratney wrote:

>> While interesting there are two flaws here. Firstly, this down't work 
>> on all versions of Windows. Secondly, if I could get my users to set 
>> their "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their 
>> PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and 
>> neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths are set.
>
> So how about using something like regtool, there are quite a few 
> native (non-Cygwin dependant) regtool alikes around. From there all 
> you need to do is check HKLM or HKCU. Or write your own custom 
> implementation.

What exactly am I checking for? That ApplicationPaths is set properly or 
that PATH has a Cygwin bin dir? And what if they don't. In that case I'm 
back to the same situation in trying to determine where Cygwin was 
installed.

Or am I checking to see where Cygwin is installed by looking, as the 
original poster had queried, where Cygwin's bin is mounted? How does 
that fit with Christopher's assertion that that might go away? Again, I 
would think it would be far more meaningful to dedicate at least one 
registry spot to denote where Cygwin was installed and then build from 
there. Seems to be a very logical way to do it from my point of view but 
as always, this is just my opinion.



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