On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin >> > installation directory? I thought of 'cat >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but >> > it seems that there can be multiple installation locations stored there. >> >> Will "cygpath -m /" do? > >Uh... right. Thanks :)
The problem is finding cygpath isn't it? If it's not in the path then you'll have to search for it. You could look for the shortcut on the desktop I guess and infer the bin directory from that.