From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Problems running cygwin32 16 Sep 1998 03:02:15 -0700 Message-ID: <19980915133532.4673.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send104.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Jonathan Mark Brooks Cc: gw32 ---Jonathan Mark Brooks wrote: > > I've had problems getting cygwin32 to run on my system. > I downloaded and ran cdk.exe as directed, and added > the "shell" statement to my config.sys. But then I > get a message when I try to start Cygnus that it > can't find "\command.com". \command.com would be looking for command.com in the root directory of the current device. What do you have the shell statement saying? You must be specific with the device!! shell=c:\command.com. > > I definitely have command.com at the path set in the > shell command. > > I don't have cygwin set up on my C: drive; I put it > on another drive for space considerations. You will need to modify the cygnus.bat file and change the CYGROOT and CYGFS to point to your installation. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- To fix the most serious problems: Please, _READ_ the IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE at the end of this note. Please, ensure that there is only _ONE_ cygwinb19.dll. Please, ensure that _ALL_ b18 binaries have been removed. Please, research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives first. http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Searchable Mail Archives) Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de:1080 (Cygwin32 Porting Project) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.downloadwizard.com/ak/gnu-win32/bash.html (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Package Porting Notes) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David fox - RPM packages) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.kedemel.demon.co.uk/ (Darren's ports) http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/ ("Ludovic Lange" ) http://www.skydancer.demon.co.uk/gnu-win32/ (UK mirror and ports) http://www.i21.com/~tjump/files/index.html (Theodore Jump - emacs functions, cygwin32 ports, other info) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if you're using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools has lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".