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: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:23:27 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed? Message-ID: <20041001172327.GU15450@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041001171939.GS15450@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041001171939.GS15450@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:08:48PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >>Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>..snip.. >>>> If you have cygwin programs available to you, then use the mount >>>> command. If the only output from the mount command is of the >>>> "noumount" variety then cygwin isn't installed in any meaningful way. >>> >>> Personally I would consider the existence or non-existence of >>> cygwin1.dll to be a more definitive measure of whether or not Cygwin >>> is installed in a "meaningful" way. >>I think it may be possible to cygwin installed and not have it in the path, >>if it's started from a bat or cmd that modifies the path etc... >>anyway, finding cygwin1.dll may be a slow process. It might be better to >>access the registry, this jscript uses the windows scripting host, so won't >>work on older boxes unless wsh is there, but as a proof of concept it may be >>ok. > >Just having "mount.exe" and "cygwin1.dll" in the same directory and running >"mount" should be adequate. > >If "mount" exits with a "multiple cygwin problem" then, well... > >If "mount" shows more than just /cygdrive paths, then cygwin isn't installed ^ nothing >in any useful way. cgf (batting 1000) -- 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/