John R. McPherson wrote: > > Other than forcing users to create a "X:\\tmp" directory (or doing this > during installation) or modifying the source code for these 3rd-party > packages, is there any way to get the dll to use windows's %TEMP% > or %TMPDIR% environment variables?
You need to look into the way Cygwin handles the mount table. For your purposes, it would probably be enough to simply set up a mount for /tmp to point to the user's %TEMP% during your normal installation process.
