Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Sat Nov 22 07:22:00 GMT 2014
On 11/21/2014 2:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
>
>> On 11/21/2014 10:58 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>>>>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
>>>>
>>>> this is curious
>>>
>>> ItÂ’s happening because heÂ’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin wonÂ’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isnÂ’t in the path.
>>>
>>> This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found.
>>>
>
>> You don't need mintty to "run cygwin". Open a cmd prompt and do
>> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin).
>
> Don't even need a cmd prompt.
> You can just start bash.
True cut if something goes wrong it's real hard to catch the error
message before the window disappears! ;-)
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