Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2009-12-30 Thread tuli tanssi
Hi, I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with 32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe) without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command line tools like gcc.exe do not work anymore (from cmd.exe). They do work ok from Cygwin'

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-01 Thread tuli tanssi
> This is a known limitation of the symbolic links in Cygwin 1.7. The solution > is ... Thanks for the info. I'll try one of your workarounds. Cheers, Tuli -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-02 Thread tuli tanssi
> Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy? > (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx) > > (Admittedly, a kludge, but this is Windows, after all. ;-)) > > Lee Actually, in Windows 7, Microsoft has implemented true symbolic links (as far as I

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-03 Thread tuli tanssi
> You could create a Windows symbolic link using the Windows 'mklink' > tool though, and it should work both in cmd.exe and in Cygwin. Thanks for the info and Corinna's quote. Probably I'll just create windows symlinks like from c:\users\tuli\bin\gcc.exe to c:\cygwin\bin\gcc-3.exe so that cygwin

NFS client

2010-01-10 Thread tuli tanssi
Is there an NFS client in Cygwin? I noticed there is an NFS server, but that is not what I need. Or if Cygwin doesn't have it, what good (and free) NFS client would you recommend? (I tried to find older postings of this but didn't find the answer.) Cheers, Tuli -- Problem reports: http://c