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RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: "John Dallaway" <jld at ecoscentric dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:45:42 -0000
- Subject: RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for
a script...
cygpath -w -p /
works for me :)
J.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com]On Behalf
> Of John Dallaway
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
>
>
> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation
> programatically. More precisely, I need to determine the native
> path to the
> directory containing cygwin1.dll from outside the Cygwin environment. I
> could interrogate the registry for mount points, but in the worst case I
> would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for
> both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method?
>
> John Dallaway
>
>
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