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Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:27:34 +0300
- Subject: Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install
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Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
>>>>>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
>>>>>
>>>>> this is curious
>>>>
>>>> It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path.
>>>>
>>>> This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found.
>>>>
>>
>>> You don't need mintty to "run cygwin". Open a cmd prompt and do
>>> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin).
>>
>> Don't even need a cmd prompt.
>> You can just start bash.
> True cut if something goes wrong it's real hard to catch the error
> message before the window disappears! ;-)
Aaaaahh!!! You clever creature! :D
Good point. I'll keep that in mind next time I have to convey console commands
to someone less educated.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 23.11.2014, <04:26>
Sorry for my terrible english...