Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Rolf Campbell
rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com
Thu Mar 27 01:45:00 GMT 2003
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>
>> But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to
>> be relied on as they might not be there forever.
>
>
> Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at
> least one registry entry which denotes the [active] installation path of
> Cygwin. IOW I was sort of requesting it. Again, it's only my opinion.
> But to me it seems logical that you gotta know where to start... and the
> registry is there, partially for such a purpose....
What do you mean by [active]? It is possible to have multiple cygwins
installed. The easiest way would be to have 2 different users install
local for "Just Me".
And about searching for "bin/cygwin1.dll". You could first try
"C:\cygwin\bin\" (which should match 99% of all cases), and only if that
fails, look for the DLL the hard way.
-Rolf
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