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Re: Trouble with running cygwin dll on Vortex86MX+ CPU


On Apr  7 11:08, Colin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Apr  4 09:44, Colin wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > 
> > 
> > Alternatively, even though I hate to point people to older versions
> > of Cygwin, you could try the old Cygwin 1.5.25.  I'm not quite sure,
> > but I think it was compiled for i586 or even i386.  It's not as
> > feature-rich as Cygwin 1.7 but it worked, and maybe the set of
> > POSIX functions is sufficient for you.  See the Cygwin time machine
> > at http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca
> > 
> > If you want to go even further back in time, then MSYS may be the
> > right thing for you.  It's a rip-off of Cygwin 1.3.22 with a few
> > patches to supposedly building native executables a bit better.
> > Just make sure to grab the old MSYS, not the more recent MSYS2.
> > See http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Corinna
> > 
> 
> Cygwin 1.5.25 seems like a good option. So I downloaded setup-legacy.exe 
> from fruitbat and ran it on an XP machine which has not previously seen 
> Cygwin. Initially I installed just the base Cygwin files. The process ran 
> as expected, and installed 4,263 files in 472 folders. 
> 
> However the bash shell appears non-functional as far as external commands 
> go. It presents a prompt bash-3.2$, if I type something like ls, it 
> responds command not found. Any ideas?

$PATH?


Corinna

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