Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/23/20:16:15
Hi Yili,
On 24 Apr 2004 at 7:51, Yili Zhao <ylzhao AT vip DOT sina DOT com> spoke, thus:
> I use cygiwn to compile a simple application hello.exe in e:\test, when I
> enter /cyggrive/e/test and execute hello.exe in cygwin bash. However,
> though hello.exe exists in this directory, cygwin still says that "bash:
> hello.exe: command not found". If
> I copy hello.exe to /usr/local/bin, then cygwin can find it.
Bash does not search the current directory by default for files to execute
if no path is specified. You can:
1. Add current directory (".") to your path. This is not recommended,
for security reasons.
2. Learn to live with the new (and IMHO better) convention of addressing
everything by its full path:
./hello.exe
This question is commonly asked, and could have been answered by the
Cygwin FAQ. Please use this valuable resource before asking questions.
See:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC36
Equally, your subject line doesn't really tell me much about your question
- you may find response levels to your enquiry to be poor if you do not
construct a more meaningful subject line. You just happen to have
encountered a recently joined participant on the mailing list who hasn't
set up a filter rule yet - but you won't be so lucky next time, I'm
ruthless with my mailing list scans, I've a loada mail to look at each
day. On the mailing list pages are links and text which you absolutely
*must* read and understand. We can't help you unless you help yourself.
Finally, a word of advice from me, because Cygwin gives you chance to use
NT's cmd.exe or Win9x' command.com as command prompt, you may wish to
stick with it (add Cygwin binary directories /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin [urgh] to your path environment variable) -
you may then run tools straight from your more familiar, less unusual (to
you) "C:\>" prompt.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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