> !!! Ah come on . . .
> Six months ago I took a 60 minute run at it that installation didn't 
> work when completed. Now I've spent an hour and a half on it and I'm 
> getting close, but still no joy.

  user error - not tools error. 

> Five minutes . . . maybe IF you know exactly which tools you need, IF 
> you know what CYGWIN is and have installed it 10 times before, IF you 
> know that the CYGWIN installer is also use to install the PRC-TOOLS too 
> and understand why and how.

  ok.. 5 minute download instructions:

1. goto http://www.cygwin.org/
   - download setup.exe

2. run setup.exe
   - install from network
   - install to C:\cygwin (or, wherever)
   - make mode = UNIX (there is an option there)
   - make sure you select the packages you need

     . i normally download a full cygwin to do compilation for 
       win32 (gcc, make, libc, etc).. cygwin has a load of other 
       tools (wget, ncftp, etc) - i grab those too.

     . prc-tools REQUIRES 'make', and, if you wish to build
       pilrc from sources, you need to grab 'gcc' etc.

3. goto http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/cygwin.html
   - download prc-tools binary (i do this, dont trust net install)

4. run setup.exe (from cygwin)
   - install from local directory (point to where you downloaded)
   - leave all other options the same

5. goto http://www.ardiri.com/palm/pilrc/
   - download PilRC
   - grab pilrc.exe from the archive, and, from within a bash
     shell type:

     $ cp pilrc.exe /bin

6. your done.

there are pilrc "cygwin" packages available. and, i intend to build
them in future so you install pilrc just like you do with prc-tools.
i think the biggest confusion here is that OLD prc-tools was installed
differently to what it is today. the NEW prc-tools is distributed in a
much better manner and, you consider prc-tools as a package to cygwin.
when you get your brain around that, everything is solved.

--
Aaron Ardiri
CEO - CTO
Mobile Wizardry
http://www.mobilewizardry.com/


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