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 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:06:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll Message-ID: <20010829090608.B3834@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <12F176DD950ED411B68E0050DA14ED103389D5@jupiter.gunzphoto.com.au> <20010829005001.A1434@vayu.niar.twsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010829005001.A1434@vayu.niar.twsu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:50:01AM -0600, Ivan Petrovich wrote: >Neil Lunn a e'crit: >> I'd like to know what peoples exact facination with putting cygwin1.dll in >> their Windows system directory is anyway. This should only ever be needed > >The reason is as follows. I am given a Window 98 machine at work to >perform certain tasks. I am not at liberty to make any major changes >to the OS installation or the software. And putting random DLLs in your system directory isn't considered a major change? >However, the C programs compiled with gcc under cygwin won't run >outside of cygwin unless it can find the dll, hence my original >question. Even if I end up having to install cygwin on all the >machines at work to be able to run these programs, it would still be >beneficial to run them without starting the cygwin shell window because >my coworkers don't care to use bash or tcsh. All they want is to run >the programs. There is no reason to start bash just to run a cygwin executable. You are going to put your programs in a directory. Put cygwin1.dll in the same directory. Problem solved. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/