X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:35:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install? Message-ID: <20051123213551.GA2952@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20051123035342.9E89913C1A1@cgf.cx> <20051123192106.GA757@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4384DF7D.142487C5@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384DF7D.142487C5@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:30:37PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>Or you could look at how setup.exe/cygcheck does it and help extract >>the mount code into a library that could be linked into other apps. > >FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw "libcygpath" really appeals to me >and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while. It >would be a library that knows how to read the mount table, and do basic >path conversions, without depending on cygwin1.dll. Then cygpath and >setup.exe could both statically link to this library, and it would be >available to other users as well. FWIW, Robert Collins and I talked about doing this years ago but it just suffered due to SHTDI. I think that path.cc in the utils directory should be a pretty good start towards a library for reading the mount table. It is what is used by strace.cc and cygcheck.cc. cgf -- 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/