Re: [Mingw-msys] Installation on WindowsME

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

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From: "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...>
To: "John Fletcher" <J.P...@as...>
Cc: <Min...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] Installation on WindowsME


> John Fletcher wrote:
> > From:           Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...>
> > Send reply to:  Min...@li...
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> > Subject:        Re: [Mingw-msys] Installation on WindowsME
> > Date sent:      Mon, 04 Nov 2002 06:42:34 -0500
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Would you like me to check out the rc on Windows ME and report?
> >>>
> >>
> >>That would be kind.  You can install in a different directory location,
> >>E.G. c:/msys/rc instead of c:/msys/1.0 and then you'll have both.
> >>
> >>Earnie.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Earnie.  The 1.08-rc-2 installs O.K. on Windows ME.  I need then
> > to set the environment to 2048 in the properties of the MSYS Icon,
> > as previously discussed.
> >
>
> Thank you, John.  Does anyone have a method to set the properties of the
> shortcut?  Preferably from an MSYS shell script.
>
> Earnie.

According to this URL:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-03/msg00212.html

There is no documented way to set the "initial environment" property of a
shortcut even using the Shell COM API, so I am sure it is impossible using
just a shell script. Rather than using a preset shortcut like in the above
message, I think it would best to set the shortcut command to something like
"c:\windows\command.com /e:4096 ...". I found that desktop.cc and mklink2.cc
in the source of Cygwin setup.exe do exactly this, in a way that should be
simple to extract as a standalone program that can be executed by the MSYS
installer.

Luke