On Jun 11 11:39, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it has been covered somewhere -- I could not find the answer, so please > excuse the repetition. I observe that if I build an app (consider the > simplest > "Hello world" program below as an example), and store the executable at a > standalone > location (not CYGWIN tree), yet supplemented it with a cygwin1.dll, it can > then successfully > run when started in the Windows shell (CMD.EXE) from a subdirectory, but > fails ungracefully > if run from the root of a drive (e.g. when stored onto a USB stick that has > the "flat" > file structure, w/o subdirectories). > > Can anything be done about it? (Like allowing the app to run, or issuing an > error
I just applied a patch which allows to run Cygwin applications, even if the Cygwin DLL is installed into the root directory of a drive or network path. Note that certain paths still have to match the expectations. For instance, if D: is the root dir, the fstab, passwd and group files are still searched in /etc, which is D:\etc. Also the /usr/bin and /usr/lib default mount points will invariably point to D:\bin and D:\lib, unless there's a /etc/fstab file which changes them per the user's guide. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
