Using cygwin tar from a DOS window

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 02.09.2020 um 19:59 schrieb Eliot Moss:
> On 9/2/2020 1:40 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:
>>
>> On 9/2/2020 1:28 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> On 9/2/2020 1:00 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/2/2020 12:53 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> But if I use tar from a DOS window ...
>>>>> Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more 
>>>>> (unless
>>>>> you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM).
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows 
>>>>> console-mode
>>>>> program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode
>>>>> single-tasking operating system.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
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>>>>
>>>> Yes, a cmd.exe console window.
>>>
>>> Hardly the point :-) ...
>>>
>>> But I think your problem may be that the Cygwin dlls need to be on 
>>> the search path,
>>> and you're hoping that none of them have names that are the same as 
>>> ones earlier on
>>> the path ...
>>>
>>> Best - Eliot Moss
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>>
>> I did try copying all of the .dll files in the Cygwin bin folder to 
>> the same folder where the copy of Cygwin's tar.exe sits. That folder 
>> appears first in the PATH.  But despite that, trying to invoke tar 
>> from the cmd window still pops up the window saying cyggcc_s-1.dll 
>> can't be found.
>
> I meant that your PATH should have the Cygwin bin folder in it, 
> somewhere.  Does that not work for you?  But my setup definitely has 
> the cyggcc_s-1.dll file in /bin and /usr/bin.
> It comes from the libgcc1 package (libgcc1-9.3.0-2 in my case).
Some independent comments:
* I see cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll in the libgcc1 package, not cyggcc_s-1.dll
* My current cygwin tar does not depend on cyggcc_s-1.dll
* Maybe your cygwin tar is an older release, now and then gcc library 
conventions have changed
Thomas