Missing strings.exe in binutils

[Jeff Hubbs]

On 6/1/14, 8:28 PM, Cliff Hones wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the "strings"
>> command.  Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the
>> binutils package.  The problem is that neither of the available versions of binutils
>> seem to actually contain strings.exe.  It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn
>> it up under /usr at all.
>>
>> There's even this:
>>
>>      $ cygcheck -p strings.exe
>>      Found 19 matches for strings.exe
>>      x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2
>>      x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3
>>
>> And if I go to
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$
>> this appears:
>>
>>      2014-05-29 02:01      709661 usr/bin/strings.exe
>>
>> Yet there's no strings.exe.  I've even tried binutils packages from a few
>> different mirrors.
>>
>> If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a
>> strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being?
> strings.exe certainly is in the binutils package I have installed.  Either you haven't
> actually installed binutils or something has gone wrong with the installation. I suggest
> you rerun setup.exe and install or reinstall binutils, and if that doesn't help
> follow the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html - in
> particular attach the requested cygcheck output.
>
> -- Cliff
It turned out that the setup.exe was 64-bit while the rest of the Cygwin 
installation was 32-bit.  The errors I got from running cygcheck tipped 
me off.  Case closed; strings.exe is present now. Thank you.


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