X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:52:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile Message-ID: <20090828165231.GA26088@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <25188895 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <25189372 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <25191024 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <25193163 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25193163.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0700, ken j wrote: > > >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, ken j wrote: >>>BTW I've found that I do NOT need to type './' but >>> rather only '/' to get an exe file to run in Cygwin. >> >> That's only true if the executable is in the root directory (c:\cygwin >> in Windows, / in Cygwin). > >OK I see that now - I had been moving the compiled programs from >C:\cgwin\home\username to c:\cygwin, actually because I didn't know about >the './' command. > >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >>> Also, all of my compiled executables go to c:\cygwin\home\username, not >>> the >>> directory I'm in, which is c:\cygwin. >> >> That makes no sense. g++ -o file will put the executable in that >> file in the current directory. If it's going elsewhere, then you're >> telling it to put it elsewhere. > >My mistake. I was IN the c:\cygwin\home\username directory, which is why the >exe's went there. I then copied some of them to c:\cygwin, which made me >able to run some with just '/' instead of './' > > > >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> 1) Why do you keep reporting Windows paths when talking about Cygwin? >> You're running these commands inside a Cygwin bash window, right? > >This illustrates my lack of understanding how paths work in cygwin. Yes all >this programming effort is being done in a cygwin bash window. It isn't paths in cygwin. It is paths in UNIX. That's what Cygwin is emulating. >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> 2) what does the command 'pwd' tell you? > >/home/username I'm not seeing a whole-lot of cygwin-specific issues here. The cygwin list is not here to help people get up to speed on how to program or how to use UNIX. I've been hoping that I won't have to step in and be mean but I would appreciate it if you would find some other forum for working out your beginner programming issues. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple