Greetings, Vincent Richomme! >>> run setup and choose the directory you want >> >>> the default proposal is c:\cygwin >> >> To add: >> Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. >>
> Again I was not very clear I don't want to know how to install cygwin > because even a monkey can do it. > No what I want to know is in the installer how do you change folder > permissions, what kind of API, is it done by the installer or by some post > install script... Erm, wat? Sorry, but I quite don't understand, what the end-result you want? Cygwin is installed in userspace. You could even install it in your profile directory (assuming you're on Vista/W7). > Where can I find cygwin installer sources if it's done by it. > Actually I built a custom installer for msys/mingw-w64 and when I > install it in C:/Developer/MaxGW, if I run it without permissions I cannot > create new folder : > mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied > cp: cannot create regular file `/home/Vincent/.inputrc': No such file > or direry > bash: cd: /home/Vincent: No such file or directory Then you don't have permissions to write to that folder. > It means I usually have to run my application using administrator > rights but I don't like to do this. > Cygwin seems to allow user to create folder inside its installation > path so I would like to know how it's possible. Sorry my, is this question regarding Cygwin, or msys? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 29.11.2010, <2:01> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
