On 6/1/14, 8:28 PM, Cliff Hones wrote:
On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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?
strings.exe certainly is in the binutils package I have installed. Either you
haven't
actually installed binutils or something has gone wrong with the installation.
I suggest
you rerun setup.exe and install or reinstall binutils, and if that doesn't help
follow the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html - in
particular attach the requested cygcheck output.
-- Cliff
It turned out that the setup.exe was 64-bit while the rest of the Cygwin
installation was 32-bit. The errors I got from running cygcheck tipped
me off. Case closed; strings.exe is present now. Thank you.
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