Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Apr 4 09:44, Colin wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > Alternatively, even though I hate to point people to older versions > of Cygwin, you could try the old Cygwin 1.5.25. I'm not quite sure, > but I think it was compiled for i586 or even i386. It's not as > feature-rich as Cygwin 1.7 but it worked, and maybe the set of > POSIX functions is sufficient for you. See the Cygwin time machine > at http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca > > If you want to go even further back in time, then MSYS may be the > right thing for you. It's a rip-off of Cygwin 1.3.22 with a few > patches to supposedly building native executables a bit better. > Just make sure to grab the old MSYS, not the more recent MSYS2. > See http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS > > HTH, > Corinna >
Cygwin 1.5.25 seems like a good option. So I downloaded setup-legacy.exe from fruitbat and ran it on an XP machine which has not previously seen Cygwin. Initially I installed just the base Cygwin files. The process ran as expected, and installed 4,263 files in 472 folders. However the bash shell appears non-functional as far as external commands go. It presents a prompt bash-3.2$, if I type something like ls, it responds command not found. Any ideas? Colin -- 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
