Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

On 11/21/2014 2:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.

True cut if something goes wrong it's real hard to catch the error 
message before the window disappears! ;-)
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Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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