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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:04:28 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Lars Munch cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Command-line options for setup.exe In-Reply-To: <20030224113330.GB425@tuxedo.skovlyporten.dk> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Lars Munch wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003@12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > > Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find > > the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ > > machines and command-line options to install all packages found in > > network share would be simplest method, otherwise I might have to > > repackage it into a MSI using Wise Package Studio or something similar. > > I have tried to create a MSI package but the result is *very* slow > because of the size and a huge number of files, also sym-links did not > work after installation of the MSI package. > > Instead I use Nullsoft Scriptable Install System > http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (remember to use -a to preserve file attributes). > Take a look@my homepage for more information: > http://lwb1.it.dtu.dk/~lmc/rebuilt.php > > Anyway, I would also like to know the command-line options for setup (if > they exists) > > > I saw a discussion about adding support for this in the > > cygwin-developers mailing list (~ 10/2001, topic="setup.exe command-line > > options") -- but cannot find any documentation about whether this was > > completed. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Rajiv Lars, "Use the source"^{TM} Seriously, there are no command-line options to speak of in the "official" setup.exe on the cygwin.com site (v. 2.249.2.5). There are quite a few in the CVS HEAD of setup.exe. A look at the source, however, will show you all the relevant options, with explanations. Check out the CVS HEAD (as described at ), and grep all .cc files for "Option". There is even a patch outstanding that adds a "--help" option to list all available options: (with one caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from source for you to see console output). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/