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Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:58:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
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>> 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.
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