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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:27:19AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Bob Rossi wrote on Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:10 AM:
>> > I'd like to know if anyone knows if it is possible to start the msys
>> > environment from a cygwin shell? I'm ssh'ing into a windows machine,
>> > which gives me a cygwin shell. I've tried a lot of things, and can't
>> > get an msys environment.   
>> > 
>> > Even if I remove every environment variable except for PS1, and then
>> > run 'cmd' and then cd to C:\msys\1.0 and the run .\msys.bat, I end up
>> > back in cygwin somehow.  
>> > 
>> > Any suggestions?
>> 
>> No idea, but this might help:
>> http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-usingwithcygwin
>
>Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for. I've already showed that I
>can cross compile from cygwin to mingw. However, I would also like to
>build nativly for mingw. I can do this if I'm sitting at my computer,
>cuase the msys environment is easy to get. However, when I'm remote,
>there is no way I can see to get into an msys environment.
>
>The mingw-users list suggested that I get another version of sshd that's
>not related to cygwin. However, i like cygwin's sshd server.
>
>Any ideas?

We do not support msys in this mailing list.

Please take this discussion elsewhere.

cgf

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