From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12785 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2014 04:41:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12775 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jun 2014 04:41:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nm10-vm3.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: from nm10-vm3.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (HELO nm10-vm3.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (216.39.63.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:41:55 +0000 Received: from [216.39.60.174] by nm10.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2014 04:41:53 -0000 Received: from [67.195.22.113] by tm10.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2014 04:41:53 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2014 04:41:53 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: nDIEWE2swBBK1MBnA6Ka6uwrAUy9MzM53nrMpyNLYQ-- X-Rocket-Received: from ipsec-143-215-18-65.vpn.gatech.edu (jhubbslist@143.215.18.65 with plain [67.195.15.66]) by smtp115.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 01 Jun 2014 21:41:53 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <538C008F.3020500@att.net> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:41:00 -0000 From: Jeff Hubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils References: <538BB0D5.6040203@att.net> <538BC536.8000100@hones.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <538BC536.8000100@hones.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple