From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gary Spivey" To: Subject: Newbie: Proper?? method for running windows apps Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:32:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01193.html Firstly, I am loving this whole cygwin idea. It is making my life a lot easier as I continue waiting for our IT people to come up with a way for me to VPN from linux (we have some stupid Lucent brick thing that only works with its own windows client - no FreeSwan). Anyway, I would like to be able to port my entire perl based app from windows to linux to Solaris. The problem I am having is that the tools in windows exist outside of the cygwin directories, but the perl programs and files that are being operated on exist within the cygwin directories. So, I get a command like this ... link_to_windows_command -optiona -optionb /home/file/inside/cygwin Which results in a file not found from the windows executable. This appears to be happening because the windows command is running in the normal windows filesystem and can't find it. Now it seems that this problem should have a rather simple solution, but I can't seem to find it. I don't know if I am suppose to be moving stuff out to windows and linking from cygwin, or doing something with the mounts, ... The problem would be completely solved if windows and cygwin shared the same paths, but y'all don't seem to like that. I can't seem to find solutions in the User's Manual or searching, but that is likely because I am overwhelmed by all of this at the moment. Any help? Cheers, Gary spivey@ieee.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/