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Re: <Error : Windows is searching for Mintty>


On 6 September 2013 16:49, Manoj Navandar wrote:
> I recently installed cygwin on Windows 8 64 bit. Packages installation
> worked fine but it seems Mintty is missing. I reinstalled cygwin
> setup-x86_64 [version 2.819-64 bit] by adding mintty (both bin and
> src) under shell tab (1.2-beta-1.1 version), but it seems that error
> still persists.
>
> Target path is - C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -

This should be "mintty.exe" in place of "mintty".

> I checked C:\cygwin64\bin directory. mintty is missing there. I also
> tried to download the package separately. But it's not working. Is
> there any way I would get it to work? I have tried every possible
> option. Nothing much on internet about cygwin on windows 8. Please
> help!

Is "mintty.exe" there? If not, follow the problem reporting
guidelines; specifically the bit about cygcheck output.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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