Calling cygwin binaries from dos prompt : access denied

2009-10-20 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, When trying to get gcc version from a dos command by entering C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\gcc -v I get a access denied error message. Is it possible change that and allow to call it from external world ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Calling cygwin binaries from dos prompt : access denied

2009-10-20 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: Hi, When trying to get gcc version from a dos command by entering C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\gcc -v I get a access denied error message. Is it possible change that and allow to call it from external world ? It's a symlink, and cmd.exe doesn't know how to resolve cygwin symlinks.