Hi,
I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with
32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe)
without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command
line tools like gcc.exe do not work anymore (from cmd.exe). They do
work ok from Cygwin'
On 12/30/2009 08:30 AM, tuli tanssi wrote:
Hi,
I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with
32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe)
without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command
line tools like gcc.exe do not work anymore
> This is a known limitation of the symbolic links in Cygwin 1.7. The solution
> is ...
Thanks for the info. I'll try one of your workarounds.
Cheers,
Tuli
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2009/12/30 Larry Hall (Cygwin):
>> I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with
>> 32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe)
>> without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command
>> line tools like gcc.exe do not work anymore (from
Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/12/30 Larry Hall (Cygwin):
I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with
32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe)
without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command
line tools like gcc.exe do not work anym
> Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy?
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx)
>
> (Admittedly, a kludge, but this is Windows, after all. ;-))
>
> Lee
Actually, in Windows 7, Microsoft has implemented true symbolic links
(as far as I
Lee Rothstein:
>> Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here?
Don't think so, afaik junction points (introduced in Win2000, and
different from Vista/7 symlinks) work correctly for directories only.
Hard links, however, should work just fine for the problem at hand.
tul
> You could create a Windows symbolic link using the Windows 'mklink'
> tool though, and it should work both in cmd.exe and in Cygwin.
Thanks for the info and Corinna's quote.
Probably I'll just create windows symlinks like from
c:\users\tuli\bin\gcc.exe to c:\cygwin\bin\gcc-3.exe
so that cygwin
On 01/01/2010 04:52 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy?
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx)
NTFS junctions are for directories only.. For files and directories, one could
use "mklink" on Vista and newe
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