some more questions :cygwin setup failed

[rahul toley <rahul_toley at yahoo dot com>]

Hi Gerrit,

Thanks for your help and explanation. I used setup.exe to install cygwin  . Still the shell gets killed . If I try to open the cygwin.dat(under C:\cygwin directory) file , it opens as a shell with title "Finished - cygwin" 
the prompt itself shows "bad command or filename"  . If I try to do anything to this shell , the system prompts me to close it .

Basically after installation , I see an icon and if I click on it , the shell opens and gets killed immediately . 


I need cygwin to install verilog-icarus,perl and gcc. 

I would appreciate your diagnostics as I couldnt get any more info from the user guide regarding installation and the first steps after installation.

I expected cygwin a unix like shell from where I can execute all unix development tools eventually.  

thanks,
Rahul.


--- "Gerrit P. Haase"

wrote: > rahul toley schrieb am 2001-04-14, 0:15: > > > Target Platform : Windows ME (problem ?) > > I don't know. > > > Executable version :cygwin-1.1.8-1.tar.gz after > > untarring and gziping (i use powerarchivers > extracter) > Never use such extracters!!! > Use setup.exe from cygwin. > Didn't you use setup.exe? > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > Load it down and do the install with this tiny tool. > > After installing cygwin correct, you may use tar and > gzip and bzip2 > that comes with cygwin, but never use winzip or > some other dumb tool. > They don't extract everything!!! > > > Side Questions: which is the main executable. i > > tried running cygpath.exe cygcheck.exe > > x:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > > > Symptoms : Two files that look perfectly normal to > me > > setup and setup.log > [...] > Seems there are some parts missing. > > Load down with setup.exe. > It is difficult to say, what is minimum to install. > > I would suggest, you will need nearly all from > latest and everything > from contrib, well, for the beginning, you won't > need squid, postgresql, > maybe cvs is not important to you, ghostscript is > not that essential > for cygwin to run, mt is for tapes... if you got no > tape..., mutt is > the email-client which will not be used for cygwin > to run and also isn't > ssmtp (mailer for mutt), tetex-beta takes a huge > mount of space and isn't > needed to run cygwin. But all the other packages are > important (more or > less). Well, if you don't plan to develop, there are > some other packs, > which will not be needed, like gcc, but then i > wonder, why you want to > use cygwin... > > I always do 'download from internet' at first, then > run setup again and > install from local directory. > If setup is ready with installing, it makes a > shortcut to your desktop, > if you like, which points to x:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > This .bat file is the startup for cygwin. > You need to call it. > For some reason, you will need to modify it. I added > this line: > set CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec title > CYGWIN must be set before the start of bash. > Read the cygwin-ug (User Guide) and the FAQ: > http://www.cygwin.com > for more informations. > > whole cygwin.bat: > ================= > @echo off > H: > chdir \bin > set CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec title > bash --login -i > > After calling this .bat, you should be able to call > every binary > from the shell, just like on unixes, like: > $ cygcheck -s -v -r > $ mount > $ help > $ set > $ date > and so on > > Ciao, > > Gerrit > > -- > =^..^= gerrit.haase@t-online.de > PGP-Key: 0x28A05137 [875C 745E 01CF 8A34 2767 BE39 > 305E 5261 28A0 5137]

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