On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:01:41PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote: > Hi - > > I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the > "strings" > command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the > binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions of > binutils > seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn > it up under /usr at all. > > There's even this: > > $ cygcheck -p strings.exe > Found 19 matches for strings.exe > x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2 > x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3 > > And if I go to > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$ > this appears: > > 2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe > > Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few > different mirrors. > > If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a > strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being? > > Thanks, > - Jeff > On my Slackware system, binutils comes with strings-GNU. Perhaps you will find you have strings-GNU.exe - if so you could symlink it to strings.exe,
Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
