Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:33:21 -0800 (PST) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP To: cygwin@cygwin.com, John Seeliger Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE references: in-reply-to: Reply-To: Michael A Chase On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:27:18 -0600 John Seeliger wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message > news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0212211954070.5047-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu... >> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: >> >>> How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When >>> I try to run them, it says it can't find cygwin1.dll. >> >> Make sure c:\cygwin\bin is in your PATH. Another alternative is to use >> the mingw runtime by giving gcc the -mno-cygwin option, but be aware that >> there is less posix support there (IIRC). > Thanks. I gave the -mno-cygwin a try and it worked. I added > c:\cygwin\bin > to my autoexec.bat. As far as I know, autoexec.bat has no effect in WinXP. > It still will not recognize it and programs developed in cygwin without > the -mno-cygwin option and opened directly from windows give the error > message about cygwin1.dll . Where does it need to go? You need to add it to PATH in 'My Computer' -> ??? -> Environment. Look up Environment in WinXP's help. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/