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Subject: Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:26:20 -0800
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On 11/21/2014 10:58 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
>>
>> this is curious
>
> It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system.  Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path.
>
> This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found.
>

You don't need mintty to "run cygwin". Open a cmd prompt and do 
C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin).
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Andrew DeFaria
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