* Missing strings.exe in binutils
@ 2014-06-01 23:01 Jeff Hubbs
2014-06-01 23:52 ` Duncan Roe
2014-06-02 0:28 ` Cliff Hones
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Hubbs @ 2014-06-01 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi -
I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the
"strings"
command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the
binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions
of binutils
seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn
it up under /usr at all.
There's even this:
$ cygcheck -p strings.exe
Found 19 matches for strings.exe
x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2
x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3
And if I go to
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$
this appears:
2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe
Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few
different mirrors.
If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a
strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being?
Thanks,
- Jeff
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* Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils
2014-06-01 23:01 Missing strings.exe in binutils Jeff Hubbs
@ 2014-06-01 23:52 ` Duncan Roe
2014-06-02 0:28 ` Cliff Hones
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From: Duncan Roe @ 2014-06-01 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:01:41PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the
> "strings"
> command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the
> binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions of
> binutils
> seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn
> it up under /usr at all.
>
> There's even this:
>
> $ cygcheck -p strings.exe
> Found 19 matches for strings.exe
> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2
> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3
>
> And if I go to
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$
> this appears:
>
> 2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe
>
> Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few
> different mirrors.
>
> If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a
> strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jeff
>
On my Slackware system, binutils comes with strings-GNU. Perhaps you will find
you have strings-GNU.exe - if so you could symlink it to strings.exe,
Cheers ... Duncan.
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* Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils
2014-06-01 23:01 Missing strings.exe in binutils Jeff Hubbs
2014-06-01 23:52 ` Duncan Roe
@ 2014-06-02 0:28 ` Cliff Hones
2014-06-02 4:41 ` Jeff Hubbs
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From: Cliff Hones @ 2014-06-02 0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the "strings"
> command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the
> binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions of binutils
> seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn
> it up under /usr at all.
>
> There's even this:
>
> $ cygcheck -p strings.exe
> Found 19 matches for strings.exe
> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2
> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3
>
> And if I go to
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$
> this appears:
>
> 2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe
>
> Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few
> different mirrors.
>
> If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a
> strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being?
strings.exe certainly is in the binutils package I have installed. Either you haven't
actually installed binutils or something has gone wrong with the installation. I suggest
you rerun setup.exe and install or reinstall binutils, and if that doesn't help
follow the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html - in
particular attach the requested cygcheck output.
-- Cliff
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* Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils
2014-06-02 0:28 ` Cliff Hones
@ 2014-06-02 4:41 ` Jeff Hubbs
2014-06-02 18:12 ` Warren Young
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From: Jeff Hubbs @ 2014-06-02 4:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 6/1/14, 8:28 PM, Cliff Hones wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the "strings"
>> command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the
>> binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions of binutils
>> seem to actually contain strings.exe. It's not in /usr/bin; find can't turn
>> it up under /usr at all.
>>
>> There's even this:
>>
>> $ cygcheck -p strings.exe
>> Found 19 matches for strings.exe
>> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-2
>> x86/binutils/binutils-2.24.51-3
>>
>> And if I go to
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fbinutils%2Fbinutils-2.24.51$
>> this appears:
>>
>> 2014-05-29 02:01 709661 usr/bin/strings.exe
>>
>> Yet there's no strings.exe. I've even tried binutils packages from a few
>> different mirrors.
>>
>> If there's no fixed binutils package available, can someone shoot me a
>> strings.exe I can just fly into place for the time being?
> strings.exe certainly is in the binutils package I have installed. Either you haven't
> actually installed binutils or something has gone wrong with the installation. I suggest
> you rerun setup.exe and install or reinstall binutils, and if that doesn't help
> follow the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html - in
> particular attach the requested cygcheck output.
>
> -- Cliff
It turned out that the setup.exe was 64-bit while the rest of the Cygwin
installation was 32-bit. The errors I got from running cygcheck tipped
me off. Case closed; strings.exe is present now. Thank you.
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* Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils
2014-06-02 4:41 ` Jeff Hubbs
@ 2014-06-02 18:12 ` Warren Young
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From: Warren Young @ 2014-06-02 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin-L
On 6/1/2014 22:41, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> It turned out that the setup.exe was 64-bit while the rest of the Cygwin
> installation was 32-bit.
I'd recommend that you fix your PATH so that only one Cygwin's bin
directory is in the PATH at a time. The two Cygwins are compatible only
in the same way that Cygwin is compatible with a DOS program:
http://goo.gl/0gfn4K
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