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RE: setup.exe command line options
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: setup.exe command line options
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:45:20 +1100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> >
> >Have you tested this? AFAICT the __argv is for -mconsole
> programs only,
> >with the main prolog initialising them in the msvcrt dll
> init... which
> >in setup is not happening.
> >
> >Or, IOW, __argc and __argv have been meaningless on every test I've
> >done.
>
> Yes. I tested it with -mwindows -mno-cygwin. I couldn't print to the
> console in that case so I ran it under the debugger.
I'm only ever getting the program path, not the additional arguments...
I assume I'm doing something wrong?!
FWIW, I'm building on win32.
Rob