Like launching app as:
bash chroot /cygdrive/c/progra~1/my_stuff application.exe
(Or something similar, not tested this...)
For my working, I would need a fully detached CygWin. It's own memory, it's own DLL, and not a dependence on an existing installation, which this method would have.
This is because I will be using Install Sheild to load and run an entire application, which is compiled under CygWin, onto a foreign machine, which may be of any setup including an old, badly setup, hached and conflicting CygWin... Also then the 'Add/Remove Software' can rid the foreign OS of my stuff, without deleting the CygWin which is being used by my poor customer.
I do not need this for about six months, so will give me plenty of time to have a good hack and get to know CygWin a lot better....
Ben
John Vincent wrote:
Hi there, I may be missing something, but from you're original email it looks to me like you don't need another cygwin1.dll at all!I think all you need is a script with a few calls to umount and mount to fix your file mount points and a call to chroot to change the file system root, plus some changes to the PATH environment variable. Try "man chroot", "man umount" and "man mount" to see how these commands work. Then write a little shell script wrapper to run your application after changing the mount points, file system root, and environment appropriately. I hope this suggestion helps. /John Vincent.(snipped from original posting) Noting:- It's not a cut down version of CygWin*.DLL I need, but a cut down version of the file system, to just a couple of dozen files in /bin, /tmp, /usr and /etc, forming a 'mini' UNIX for a specific application._________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger - fast, easy and FREE! http://messenger.msn.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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