Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3830669 By: alanf00
favna wrote: << c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin no doubt it gets mentioned while you install it. or is findable by looking in program files, for the aptly named directory "gnuwin32", and see bin. you can change to that directory in the command prompt. Or more long term, you can set the PATH. Either temporarily - set path=%path%;"c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin" you may want to prepend it. Or, more long term.. which is better.. ctrl panel..system..advanced..environment variables Then look at that long path variable, and put "c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin" into the list.. Once you've OKed that, then I think maybe no restart necessary, when you next open a command prompt, it'll have it. type echo %path% and it should show it. >> Thanks for your many pointers! I checked them all out; found that all of your suggestions work, more or less. My problem remains (which I didn't mention initially): I'm trying to install Freefont. I've downloaded the Windows executable and various GNU/Cygwin related source files. While all of them seem to compile or install without any issues, all of them fail to produce an executable file. I've directly installed Freefont on Cygwin with the same result: no observable executable. I don't know if I'm completely missing something obvious, or whatever. Any help will be most appreciated. << alanf00 wrote: "am I missing something" @alanf00: yes, you are missing something. You didn't know they are command line tools. It could be these tools are not for you! >> I confess that I was a bit confused about what is and what isn't a command line tool. Now I know. Thanks. I've been using Unix for some 30 years, but mostly as a dumb user, not as I'm trying to learn myself around. Alan Feuerbacher alan...@comcast.net _____________________________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this topic or entire forum. To stop monitoring this topic visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3830669/unmonitor To stop monitoring this forum visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/unmonitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
