Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:11:38 -0500 To: Stephen Smith , Cygwin From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Where is cygwin installed - automatic query In-Reply-To: <3A93050B.ECC63281@home.com> References: <3A92FD05.0000001D@Enterprise-E.direcpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <3A9307BB.00000020@Enterprise-E.direcpc.com> OK I get it. You can look under the keys I mentioned for the "/" mount point, find the Win32 equivalent path, and append that with "usr\bin" to get the path to all Cygwin executables. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 07:00 PM 2/20/2001, Stephen Smith wrote: >Uh ... yes and no. We will use setup to install cygwin. Then we will use crossGCC.exe to install the cross compiler >where the location is c:\somedirectory and the mount point is /usr/local/somedirectory. Of course the location is >selectable from a dialog box. > >To create the mount point, /usr/local/somedirectory, I need the mount command. But the directory containing mount.exe >isn't in the path environment variable. > >sps > >"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > > At 06:20 PM 2/20/2001, Stephen Smith wrote: > > >I am writing an installshield script to install a cross-compiler for some of our users. The standard cygwin install > > >doesn't update the path variable to include the cygnus executables. Since I need to perform a mount, I need to know > > >where the Cygnus is installed. > > > > > >Is there a registry key I should be looking for. > > > > I guess I'm confused about what you're looking for. So are you going to use > > setup to install Cygwin and then use your own install program to install the > > cross-compiler? If so, you don't need to do any mount. Setup does this > > for you. You can find these mount points under > > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > > > > - or - > > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > > > > Is this what you're trying to do? > > > > Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com > > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > > 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple