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Re: Setup problems - windows 98


At 12:28 PM 7/25/2001, Mair wrote:
>Some one asked me a couple of days ago " do you know how to compile C
>programs on emacs" - well, no, I didn't, but after poking around a bit I
>ended up downloading Cygwin. Because I share the computer I've installed it
>into "C:/Mair/Cygwin" rather than the default C:/Cygwin. However, I'm having
>trouble getting it to do anything. It doesn't seem to have set up the
>defualt paths correctly - in the bash shell, if I call something like gcc or
>perl, it says command not found. I can get around this by typing in the
>complete path name each time, but this is hardly satisfactory, especially
>when the program appears to require something else - for example, I
>frequently get "cygwin1.dll not fouind". It's there all right. I've tried
>messing around with the .profile but since I don't really know what I'm
>doing I don't suppose I did much good. Then I tried putting the .profile
>through the bash thing line by line, but that didn't help. I've just about
>made it compile C programs in emacs, after poking the configuration file for
>that, but they won't execute because they can't find cygwin1.dll.
>I'm not sure if I've explained the problem very clearly but I'm not very
>sure what I'm doing here. Can anyone help?
>
>Cheers
>Mair


I suggest the following:

What if setup fails?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC12


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