Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 13:29:07 GMT 2020


On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 11:54, Csaba Ráduly via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> On my machine, I have a
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup
>
> key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date "C:\cygwin64".

Thanks, that looks more useful. I didn't think to check there as I
didn't recall having run the setup as "All users" so I assumed
everything would be in HKCU. I should have checked!
Paul


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