You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p /
works for me :) J. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of John Dallaway > Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation > > > I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation > programatically. More precisely, I need to determine the native > path to the > directory containing cygwin1.dll from outside the Cygwin environment. I > could interrogate the registry for mount points, but in the worst case I > would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for > both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method? > > John Dallaway > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
