Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2009-12-30 Thread tuli tanssi
Hi, I've been using gcc and other tools in older versions of cygwin with 32-bit Windows XP and Vista from windows command prompt (cmd.exe) without problems. But now I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and some command line tools like gcc.exe do not work anymore (from cmd.exe). They do work ok from

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-01 Thread tuli tanssi
This is a known limitation of the symbolic links in Cygwin 1.7. The solution is ... Thanks for the info. I'll try one of your workarounds. Cheers, Tuli -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-02 Thread tuli tanssi
Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy? (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx) (Admittedly, a kludge, but this is Windows, after all. ;-)) Lee Actually, in Windows 7, Microsoft has implemented true symbolic links (as far as I

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-03 Thread tuli tanssi
You could create a Windows symbolic link using the Windows 'mklink' tool though, and it should work both in cmd.exe and in Cygwin. Thanks for the info and Corinna's quote. Probably I'll just create windows symlinks like from c:\users\tuli\bin\gcc.exe to c:\cygwin\bin\gcc-3.exe so that cygwin

NFS client

2010-01-10 Thread tuli tanssi
Is there an NFS client in Cygwin? I noticed there is an NFS server, but that is not what I need. Or if Cygwin doesn't have it, what good (and free) NFS client would you recommend? (I tried to find older postings of this but didn't find the answer.) Cheers, Tuli -- Problem reports:

xwinwm issues

2005-09-09 Thread tuli tanssi
Hi, I've a couple of questions about xwinwm, the external window manager replacement of the internal manager: 1) when using xwinwm window manager, new windows will not get the focus by default. Is there a setting or option for this? Or should I check the source and recompile xwinwm? 2) I