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Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Elfyn McBratney wrote:
While interesting there are two flaws here. Firstly, this down't work
on all versions of Windows. Secondly, if I could get my users to set
their "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their
PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and
neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths are set.
So how about using something like regtool, there are quite a few
native (non-Cygwin dependant) regtool alikes around. From there all
you need to do is check HKLM or HKCU. Or write your own custom
implementation.
What exactly am I checking for? That ApplicationPaths is set properly or
that PATH has a Cygwin bin dir? And what if they don't. In that case I'm
back to the same situation in trying to determine where Cygwin was
installed.
Or am I checking to see where Cygwin is installed by looking, as the
original poster had queried, where Cygwin's bin is mounted? How does
that fit with Christopher's assertion that that might go away? Again, I
would think it would be far more meaningful to dedicate at least one
registry spot to denote where Cygwin was installed and then build from
there. Seems to be a very logical way to do it from my point of view but
as always, this is just my opinion.
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