Calling cygwin binaries from dos prompt : access denied
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Tue Oct 20 15:03:00 GMT 2009
Vincent R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When trying to get gcc version from a dos command by entering
> C:\>cygwin-1.7\bin\gcc -v
> I get a access denied error message.
> Is it possible change that and allow to call it from external world ?
It's a symlink, and cmd.exe doesn't know how to resolve cygwin symlinks.
Use the target directly: try "cygwin-1.7\bin\gcc-3 -v" or
"cygwin-1.7\bin\gcc-4 -v".
cheers,
DaveK
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