Re: Using cygwin tar from a DOS window

[Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>]

On 9/2/2020 1:40 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:
> 
> On 9/2/2020 1:28 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> On 9/2/2020 1:00 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/2/2020 12:53 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But if I use tar from a DOS window ...
>>>> Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless
>>>> you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM).
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode
>>>> program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode
>>>> single-tasking operating system.)
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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>>> Yes, a cmd.exe console window.
>>
>> Hardly the point :-) ...
>>
>> But I think your problem may be that the Cygwin dlls need to be on the search path,
>> and you're hoping that none of them have names that are the same as ones earlier on
>> the path ...
>>
>> Best - Eliot Moss
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> 
> I did try copying all of the .dll files in the Cygwin bin folder to the same folder where the copy 
> of Cygwin's tar.exe sits.  That folder appears first in the PATH.  But despite that, trying to 
> invoke tar from the cmd window still pops up the window saying cyggcc_s-1.dll can't be found.

I meant that your PATH should have the Cygwin bin folder in it, somewhere.  Does that not work for 
you?  But my setup definitely has the cyggcc_s-1.dll file in /bin and /usr/bin.
It comes from the libgcc1 package (libgcc1-9.3.0-2 in my case).

Eliot Moss