X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=h++xzE3EioKVAqrPc50syXcQ0jHXdMs+u3cTtkszIyi lyKW1OP4DPyTJU6FWRG9O9iI8py1E7WSR1Mr1s9lsbDjOACsD9gyoVPFyvA2s9y+ SiJ2w5l/+Kr9AeFlmW8smqpaqJHWZ5Be7GkvneldqX2CzQPBOH480FV3bmycjrp0 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=zUjOSmDp+n1ZTbr/j8UhXV6OoFs=; b=nj8oTtKtI8QpJGQSP X40aho45aN1bzEPqS3vqZqXduZEfOUtWoKmSLACHgJn4IZdJKllIZVKMRO6howNs F4pMzxgd1JMjB1HY8oKC5r6nsdFreXQjsATFmO+D5xUMAtovSOmNqaY8rnhJDBZQ cqDy1FkadXK1ZkUttGzzpFZrro= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: knockando.watchfront.net.uk Message-ID: <538BC536.8000100@hones.org.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 01:28:38 +0100 From: Cliff Hones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils References: <538BB0D5 DOT 6040203 AT att DOT net> In-Reply-To: <538BB0D5.6040203@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) (knockando.watchfront.net.uk) X-Spam-Report: knockando.watchfront.net.uk has scanned this email for spam. Results:- RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.651 (total -0.7, current threshold 5.0) X-IsSubscribed: yes On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote: > I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the "strings" > command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the > binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions of binutils > seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn > it up under /usr at all. > > There's even this: > > $ cygcheck -p strings.exe > Found 19 matches for strings.exe > x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2 > x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3 > > And if I go to > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$ > this appears: > > 2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe > > Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few > different mirrors. > > If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a > strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being? strings.exe certainly is in the binutils package I have installed. Either you haven't actually installed binutils or something has gone wrong with the installation. I suggest you rerun setup.exe and install or reinstall binutils, and if that doesn't help follow the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html - in particular attach the requested cygcheck output. -- Cliff -- 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