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Re: Embedded packaging of cygwin without installation
On Apr 12 18:09, Hans Kaiser wrote:
> But now I want to be able to determine, if someone has already installed
> (via your setup.exe) a cygwin. If so I would like to be able to use the
> already installed one. But how to determine if there is already an
> installation of cygwin? And furthermore, how can I use it?
Check for the registry keys HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin and
HKCU\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin. If one of them exists, you have
a Cygwin installation.
> If I detect, that no cygwin (via your setup.exe) is installed, I would like
> to open a browser which points to your setup.exe so the user could install
> the cygwin.
> In both cases it may be necessary to determine
>
> Correct me if I am wrong. This approach has no licensing issues.
If you just call setup to download from the cygwin distro, you have no
licensing problems in your scenario.
Corinna
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