Having difficulty setting up.

Having difficulty setting up.

[Daniel Harry Hawson]

I'm finding it extremely difficult to set up Cygwin.
I have been unable to compile the simplest of programs.
I have read the FAQ, some other Cygwin guide pages, and I have managed to copy 
all of the 'users guide' web pages and can understand very little of them.
Please forgive my ignorance.
It seems that I have to do many other things after installing from the latest 
'full.exe'.
I accepted the default installation options, but now I have added 'etc\', 
'usr\', 'bin\', and 'tmp\' into my C:\ directory. I read that I also need make a 
'passwd' and 'group' file, along with mounting lots of things, setting many 
environment variables in various places, and create '.profile', '.bashrc' and 
'.inputrc' somewhere.

I (and surely many others) would benefit a lot from simple, concise instructions 
for a non-networked, single HD, Win95 computer with all the files and folders 
located in C:\Cygwin.
Also, allowing a 'Progs' folder within 'C:\Cygwin\', containing C/C++ program 
code that can then be compiled using standard libraries.

I ultimately want to be able to use the OpenGL library to draw a polygon on the 
screen, but that seems unreachable at the moment.

Please could someone have pity on me and spare the time to help me set up 
everything or point me in the right direction.
I would be SO grateful.

Thankyou for your time.


Dan
u7dhh@dcs.shef.ac.uk

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Re: Having difficulty setting up.

[Michael Hirmke]

Daniel Harry Hawson [u7dhh@dcs.shef.ac.uk] wrote:

>I'm finding it extremely difficult to set up Cygwin.
>I have been unable to compile the simplest of programs.

Did you just run cygwin.bat, which should be found in c:\Cygwin?
If so, what does it mean to be "unable to compile the simplest of
programs"? What errors do you get?

[...]
>I (and surely many others) would benefit a lot from simple, concise
>instructions for a non-networked, single HD, Win95 computer with all the
>files and folders located in C:\Cygwin.

cygwin.bat should be all, which is necessary to give you a basic
environment for a prove of concept compilation.

[...]
>Thankyou for your time.
>
>
>Dan

Bye.
Michael.
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Having difficulty setting up.

[Daniel Harry Hawson]

I'm finding it extremely difficult to set up Cygwin.
I have been unable to compile the simplest of programs.
I have read the FAQ, some other Cygwin guide pages, and I have managed to copy 
all of the 'users guide' web pages and can understand very little of them.
Please forgive my ignorance.
It seems that I have to do many other things after installing from the latest 
'full.exe'.
I accepted the default installation options, but now I have added 'etc\', 
'usr\', 'bin\', and 'tmp\' into my C:\ directory. I read that I also need make a 
'passwd' and 'group' file, along with mounting lots of things, setting many 
environment variables in various places, and create '.profile', '.bashrc' and 
'.inputrc' somewhere.

I (and surely many others) would benefit a lot from simple, concise instructions 
for a non-networked, single HD, Win95 computer with all the files and folders 
located in C:\Cygwin.
Also, allowing a 'Progs' folder within 'C:\Cygwin\', containing C/C++ program 
code that can then be compiled using standard libraries.

I ultimately want to be able to use the OpenGL library to draw a polygon on the 
screen, but that seems unreachable at the moment.

Please could someone have pity on me and spare the time to help me set up 
everything or point me in the right direction.
I would be SO grateful.

Thankyou for your time.


Dan
u7dhh@dcs.shef.ac.uk

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Re: Having difficulty setting up.

[Michael Hirmke]

Daniel Harry Hawson [u7dhh@dcs.shef.ac.uk] wrote:

>I'm finding it extremely difficult to set up Cygwin.
>I have been unable to compile the simplest of programs.

Did you just run cygwin.bat, which should be found in c:\Cygwin?
If so, what does it mean to be "unable to compile the simplest of
programs"? What errors do you get?

[...]
>I (and surely many others) would benefit a lot from simple, concise
>instructions for a non-networked, single HD, Win95 computer with all the
>files and folders located in C:\Cygwin.

cygwin.bat should be all, which is necessary to give you a basic
environment for a prove of concept compilation.

[...]
>Thankyou for your time.
>
>
>Dan

Bye.
Michael.
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Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX     +49 (911) 557664
90489 Nuernberg          | E-Mail  mailto:mh@mike.franken.de
                         | WWW     http://aquarius.franken.de/

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