On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Larry Hall wrote: > Roger Head wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm a noob to Cygwin and all things non-Windows. I installed Cygwin on my >> Win2k system (a couple of hiccups, but nothing major), then installed the >> GCC. When that completed, I did g++ -v in a bash window, and got the >> expected response. I am *sure* (99% anyway) that I was also able to do it in >> a normal CMD window amd get the identical response. I then proceeded to >> install X-Windows with no problems, and it appears to work (i.e. can bring >> up calc, etc). However, if I now try to invoke g++ from a CMD window I get >> the usual message '... not recognized as an internal or external command >> ...blah blah blah'. It still works in a bash window. >> >> Am I dreaming that I was able to use it in a CMD window before installing >> X Windows, or has something been changed during that installation? If so, >> what? >> >> I have done all the above while logged on as Administrator. After the >> initial Cygwin installation I had to manually add \Cygwin\bin and >> \Cygwin\usr\bin to the PATH. That hasn't been altered. It doesn't matter >> what directory I am in when using the CMD window, g++ isn't recognized. >> >> I would sure appreciate some help. > > If you want Windows applications to be able to see Cygwin apps without > adding explicit paths to the invocation, you'll need to add 'C:\cygwin\bin' > or equivalent to your Windows PATH environment variable. You can do so > using the "System" applet from the "Control Panel".
Don't have a cygwin install in front of me ATM, but - isn't g++ a cygwin symlink these days? cmd.exe can't follow those even if they're in the path, of course. ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
