Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: "Shamsutdinov, Salikhyan" To: "'Robert McNulty Junior'" Cc: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: RE: new net release structure question. Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 06:14:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Robert, I don't have problems with installing new cygwin. I can receive bash promt when I start cygwin.bat. I only cannot understand why do I need to have two file with the same name but different sizes both in \usr\bin and \bin folders on Windows. When I start to use something it will use only one of them what is the first in the path. What is the relations betwen that pair of files? I don't want to use two binary folders like in UNIX. I prefer to put all the binaries to the one folder (concatenate /bin and /usr/bin folders ). And then start everything from one folder. Or by default it is installing in the foloowing way: 1. If I start command from dos-command line it will look at c:\cygroot\bin first, the c:\cygroot\usr\local\bin then (as the default cygwin.bat created ), so I cannot see c:\cygroot\usr\bin folder as it is not in the path 2. In unix as there is mount point /usr/bin to c:\cygroot\bin it will search only in /usr/bin My question was why two files with the same names but different sizes are in c:\cygroot\bin and c:\cygroot\usr\bin. What is the relations between them? What are these files? What is real binary, what is the second file if first one is binary I have to use? Thanks, Salikhyan. -----Original Message----- From: Robert McNulty Junior [mailto:sherlock_abc AT netzero DOT net] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:35 PM To: Shamsutdinov, Salikhyan Subject: Re: new net release structure question. Sal, try my way again. This time, use setup. All work.bat does is set the enviroment varible to the bin directory where tar.exe, gzip.exe and cygwin1.dll are at. Setup.exe goes into the tempdir itself, or where you saved it. About the tar files I had: Netscape Communicator renamed the .tar.gz to .tar. That is what happened. Right now, I'm trying to get Xfree86 for my project. See you in a bit. 1) Download all the tar.gz in each of the directories in the latest directory of the German site, saving them to a tempory directory. 2) get setup.exe and bootstrap.zip. Put them in the temp directory 3) unzip the bootstap.zip. I used unzip fond found else on the net. 4) with a text editor, make a bat file that will point to the point setup to the bin directory in the temp directory. 5) execute the bat file 6) run setup. It will call the gzip and the tar. You see, setup makes a directory on where you chose to set the root directory. I call mine "cygnus". When it creates that directory, it wil creat \bin. \usr, and a bunch of others. Setup.exe is the key. It works and it works great. You can find all the binary code for the Cygwin C/C++ compiler at the German site, or any where in Europe, Japan, and the boring USA. I am using the one of the UK site because I keep getting a timeout error on my US site. About the mount points: We are emuluting Unix and Linux under window. Window path would be like this: c:\cygnus\bin c:\cygnus\usr Because we are under bash, the format for Unix is: /bin /usr in the mount: mount c:\cygnus\bin /usr/bin Mount acts like the path command that you use under Windows. Mount tells Cygwin what path to look for when reading file. gcc.exe is in the /bin directory, when you start Cygwin, you use a bat file called Cygwin.bat. Type cygwin. If all goes well, you should see a prompt like this: BASH 2.03$ type ls you should get a directory. if you type gcc -v, it should point to a specs file under /usr. Robert McNulty Junior _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com