From: Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:29:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACac1F9BvE0nqGru8=NxA7pc=6VPF_sokUPS94Wr1NfRQeLN5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I'm trying to write an automation script that works on a number of
machines. I know that on all machines Cygwin will be installed, but I
cannot guarantee that (1) it will be in the same location on each PC,
or (2) that it will be in PATH.
There's HKCU\Software\Cygwin\Installations, but that seems to use \??
prefixes on the PATH, which I'm not sure how to interpret (I know
about \\?\ prefixes, but this is different, I assume?), and it also
includes some non-Cygwin things (one machine I have, has
\??\C:\PROGRA~1\ConEmu\ConEmu
So far, the best I can see is to try every entry in there, strip \??,
and look for a cygwin1.dll, and use the first entry I find that works.
But that seems a bit arbitrary. Is there a better way?
Thanks,
Paul
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 10:29 Paul Moore [this message]
2020-04-15 10:51 ` Csaba Raduly
2020-04-15 12:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-04-15 13:30 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:53 ` Csaba Ráduly
2020-04-15 13:29 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 15:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-04-15 18:10 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 18:30 ` René Berber
2020-04-15 18:39 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 20:49 ` René Berber
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