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 sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3A4E7B7D.FD481EAB@ubicom.com> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:19:09 -0800 From: Chris Fogelklou X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Clueless about install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, OK... I understand that all this unix/linux stuff is supposed to be confusing to keep all us GUI lovers away from it... but this is the first time I have been so utterly confused by a "setup" program... I downloaded the whole thing.. (I think... The full/part button would go bold/not bold depending on how many times I clicked it, so I assumed that bold meant full) Now, the icon for cygwin.bat, when run, tells me "bad command or file name", so I opened it, and found that it was trying to run a program called bash... After reading the faq, I found that I probably need to download bash... no link, no mention of where it might be... Shouldn't it be included in the full version of the download? Then, I tried to run fileman.exe, just because it sounded like some type of file manager... funny, it tells me that a required dll, cygwin1.dll, is missing... hmmm... thought I just downloaded the cygwin full setup program(?!?!)... This would all make a lot of sense, if today were opposite day. Now I'm perusing the FAQ, and there is no mention of where I might be able to get these files... I must be STUPID for not knowing this. Here's another interesting tidbit... The directory \cygwin\lib contains a whole lot of files ending in ".dll.a"... Am I to assume that I should rename these all to .dll? Shouldn't the setup program have done this for me too? I would love trial and error, if today were opposite day. Really, all I want to do is cross-compile a C++ .cgi program on my windows '98 machine so that it will run on my ISP's linux machine... Please help me out!!! Sincerely, Aaaaaaargh!!!! (Chris Fogelklou) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple