Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Wed Mar 26 20:58:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年3月26日, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003@03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation
> > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links
> > with it?
>> ... and cygdetect.exe will be placed in /bin :-)

That wouldn't matter. Like cygcheck.exe and setup.exe, it'll be a MinGW
application, independent of cygwin1.dll. You'd be able to download it
from the web (preferably from cygwin.com), and running it would output the
Windows path to /bin.
	Igor
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