Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/18/10:38:03
BTW, love the coloured man pages on CygWin.
Like launching app as:
bash chroot /cygdrive/c/progra~1/my_stuff application.exe
(Or something similar, not tested this...)
For my working, I would need a fully detached CygWin. It's own memory,
it's own DLL, and not a dependence on an existing installation, which
this method would have.
This is because I will be using Install Sheild to load and run an entire
application, which is compiled under CygWin, onto a foreign machine,
which may be of any setup including an old, badly setup, hached and
conflicting CygWin... Also then the 'Add/Remove Software' can rid the
foreign OS of my stuff, without deleting the CygWin which is being used
by my poor customer.
I do not need this for about six months, so will give me plenty of time
to have a good hack and get to know CygWin a lot better....
Ben
John Vincent wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I may be missing something, but from you're original email
> it looks to me like you don't need another cygwin1.dll at all!
>
> I think all you need is a script with a few calls to umount and
> mount to fix your file mount points and a call to chroot to change
> the file system root, plus some changes to the PATH environment
> variable.
>
> Try "man chroot", "man umount" and "man mount" to see how these
> commands work. Then write a little shell script wrapper to run
> your application after changing the mount points, file system
> root, and environment appropriately.
>
> I hope this suggestion helps.
>
> /John Vincent.
>
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>> (snipped from original posting)
>> Noting:- It's not a cut down version of CygWin*.DLL I need,
>> but a cut down version of the file system, to just a couple
>> of dozen files in /bin, /tmp, /usr and /etc, forming a 'mini'
>> UNIX for a specific application.
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