On Apr 12 18:09, Hans Kaiser wrote: > But now I want to be able to determine, if someone has already installed > (via your setup.exe) a cygwin. If so I would like to be able to use the > already installed one. But how to determine if there is already an > installation of cygwin? And furthermore, how can I use it?
Check for the registry keys HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin and HKCU\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin. If one of them exists, you have a Cygwin installation. > If I detect, that no cygwin (via your setup.exe) is installed, I would like > to open a browser which points to your setup.exe so the user could install > the cygwin. > In both cases it may be necessary to determine > > Correct me if I am wrong. This approach has no licensing issues. If you just call setup to download from the cygwin distro, you have no licensing problems in your scenario. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
