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Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
- From: "pichi032 ." <perronium at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:37:41 -0200
- Subject: Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
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But cygcheck is in the bin folder along with the "missing" dll .
Is there a way to edit the path so they get recognized ?
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
>
>>>>>>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this is curious
>>>>>
>>>>> Itâs happening because heâs not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin wonât start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isnât 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).
>>>
>>> Don't even need a cmd prompt.
>>> You can just start bash.
>
>> True cut if something goes wrong it's real hard to catch the error
>> message before the window disappears! ;-)
>
> Aaaaahh!!! You clever creature! :D
> Good point. I'll keep that in mind next time I have to convey console commands
> to someone less educated.
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 23.11.2014, <04:26>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
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