Hi Paul, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:30 PM Paul Moore via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write an automation script that works on a number of > machines. I know that on all machines Cygwin will be installed, but I > cannot guarantee that (1) it will be in the same location on each PC, > or (2) that it will be in PATH. > > There's HKCU\Software\Cygwin\Installations, but that seems to use \?? > prefixes on the PATH, which I'm not sure how to interpret > On my machine, I have a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date "C:\cygwin64". Csaba -- You can get very substantial performance improvements by not doing the right thing. - Scott Meyers, An Effective C++11/14 Sampler So if you're looking for a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant way to get the wrong information: this is what you want. - Scott Meyers (C++TDaWYK) -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
