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Re: mintty functionality


Doesn't the normal terminal way work?

PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH command
Or for library:
LIBRARY_PATH=my/path:$LIBRARY_PATH command

/R

2013/8/24  <wynfield@gmail.com>:
>
> I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin.
>
> I am using
>   mkshortcut  and  mintty  with the program to be invoked's name as am argument to mintty.
>
> The problem I'm encountering is that the applicatin that mintty is to run requires
> /usr/lib/lapack   which is not in PATH when invoked from the desktop.  I know I can do the windows thing to set a full microsoft windows PATH, but would prefer to keep it in the shortcut or in a mintty configuration file.
>
> In essence I want to apprend to the PATH environment variable the needed library path.
> Can this be done a.) with makshortcut or b.) with mintty.  I couldn't find any reference in h ow to in the documentation.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
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