You have to set yourself up with a Windows batch script before you can even start GNU programs. Take the cygwin.bat in C:\cygwin for example A simple batch script like this:
@echo off C: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% cmd (or command if you're Windows 95/98/ME) ...would be able to locate the cygwin1.dll in C:\cygwin\bin. That is what Dave said about what's needed (cygwin1.dll) to run GNU applications. ---- ALSO ---- If the line containing cmd (command) is missing, the prompt would pop up for a moment and then close. ---- Charli > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:39 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: PATHs in Windows and Cygwin > > > On 13 June 2006 08:18, fergus wrote: > > > However, if I start Cygwin from a command prompt having first set the > > Windows PATH to (null) as follows > > > > c:> set PATH= > > c:> j:\bin\bash > > > > then not everything works: I get messages of the style "This > application has > > failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found". > > > > 1. I realise that Cygwin is not standalone (it needs a Windows > platform to > > run) but I had not realised that the conduit to required > Windows files would > > be through PATH (if setting PATH to (null) is indeed the reason for the > > error msgs and loss of functionality). > > > > But 2. If this _is_ the reason, why does the error msg refer to > a missing > > cygwin1.dll, which is clearly there on the Cygwin PATH? > > > > Can anybody illuminate this for me, please? Thank you. > > It isn't possible to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, basically! > How could the cygwin dll be findable on the cygwin PATH unless it > was already > loaded in order to convert the cygwin POSIX path into win32 paths? > > It's windows that is responsible for loading the cygwin dll, not cygwin. > Hence it's the windows path that has to have cygwin's bin dir on it for > cygwin1.dll to even be found before anything cygwin-ish (such as > the cygwin > PATH variable) even exists. > > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
