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Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:09:15 +0300
- Subject: Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
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Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
> On 11/21/2014 10:58 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>>>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
>>>
>>> this is curious
>>
>> It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path.
>>
>> This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found.
>>
> You don't need mintty to "run cygwin". Open a cmd prompt and do
> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin).
Don't even need a cmd prompt.
You can just start bash.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 22.11.2014, <01:08>
Sorry for my terrible english...