>> 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.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:45:42PM -0000, John Morrison wrote: >You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for >a script... > >cygpath -w -p / > >works for me :) That's the only sure-fire way to work since there is no guarantee that the registry items will be around forever. In fact, I guarantee that they won't be. If you are talking about writing an actual cygwin-linked c program rather than a script then you'd use the cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path call : http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-to-full-win32-path.html cgf -- 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/
