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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: Run complex chain of windows batch files in cyg-FINAL Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:27:48 -0400 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <411B4A95.6080002@act-europe.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes geneSmith wrote, On 8/12/2004 10:10 AM: > Nicolas Roche wrote, On 8/12/2004 6:46 AM: > > >>did you launch the Windows Shell (using cmd) in your term before starting your >>build process ? >> >> >>Nico >> > > I tried that but it didn't seem to work. Turns out it is a two step > process. You first have to run "cmd" as you say. Then you run a dos bat > file to set up the env which seems to complete but unless you type > "exit" it does not take effect. After typing exit you can run the nmake > (still in windows cmd mode) which runs as if it were in a regular > command window (dos box). After the nmake finishes, you can type exit > again which returns you to bash mode in the rxvt box. > > Thanks for the help! > The first "exit" was operator error. I had put the "cmd" into the env setting bat and had not taken it out. When I took it out all okay (no extra exit needed to continue to the nmake step). -- Lit up like Levy's -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/