From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com>
To: Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin list <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:51:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEhDDbBUcV3HmoCwraH7pY5c19Sj=mRZ6ofCOZL3T9qx_4qq6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACac1F9BvE0nqGru8=NxA7pc=6VPF_sokUPS94Wr1NfRQeLN5w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Paul,
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:30 PM Paul Moore via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:
> 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
>
On my machine, I have a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup
key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date
"C:\cygwin64".
Csaba
--
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by not doing the right thing. - Scott Meyers, An Effective C++11/14 Sampler
So if you're looking for a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 10:29 Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:51 ` Csaba Raduly [this message]
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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