setup.exe: How specify web proxy by command line parameters

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 09/15/2009 11:00 AM, Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing a computer program
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/ which uses Cygwin.  Cygwin
> is installed automatically by the program. The user does not need
> to interact with setup.exe.  This is done by downloading and
> starting setup.exe programmatically, with some command line options.
>
> My problem: I need to specify the Web-proxy.  I have looked for
> command line parameters, environment variables, registry
> entries and files, but have not found anything.
>
> How can I programmatically specify the Web proxy for invocation of setup.exe?
>
> There had been discussion on this previously:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/-Patch--Proxy-command-line-argument-td14989738.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg35204.html

Sounds like you want Cygwin 1.7's setup.exe -> <http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe>


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