From: Brendon C. <br...@ch...> - 2006-09-10 11:27:30
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Hi All, What is the best method to locate a MSYS installation from outside a msys shell? Basically i plan on using a program builder called SCons and getting it to spawn off a new process redirecting the output to a variable. I need to get the result of running a shell script so my plan was to locate the sh.exe executable for MSYS if it is installed and then run the shell script with it. I went looking through the registry trying to find an appropriate key. The closest i could find was: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MSYS-1.0_is1 Is there a better way to get this installation path? Thanks, Brendon. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2006-09-11 11:57:39
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Quoting Brendon Costa <br...@ch...>: > Hi All, > > What is the best method to locate a MSYS installation from outside a > msys shell? > Ask the user during installation of your application. MSYS is built to leave no registry dust and with the 1.0.11 release will not be using an installer that does either. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com |
From: Brendon C. <br...@ch...> - 2006-09-11 21:43:21
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>> Hi All, >> >> What is the best method to locate a MSYS installation from outside a >> msys shell? >> > > Ask the user during installation of your application. MSYS is built to > leave no registry dust and with the 1.0.11 release will not be using an > installer that does either. > > Earnie Boyd Thanks for the info. Asking the user for the location of msys isn't really an option. Its not upon installing the application that i need this information but during the build process (I am not using autotools but a tool called scons). I might treat it like any other scons configuration option and use with-msys=C:\msys\1.0 I think i will just have to make some "educated guesses". Not optimal, but it will work in most cases I think. Thanks, Brendon. |
From: Nam P. <npc...@ya...> - 2006-09-17 04:00:13
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Brendon Costa <brendon@...> writes: > > I went looking through the registry trying to find an appropriate key. > The closest i could find was: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ MSYS-1.0_is1 > ZoneAlarm Spyware reports this registryKey as Win32.Trojan.Spy.DeskAd.2 and recommends me to quarantine or delete it. This puzzles me a great deal. To me, both mingw and ZoneLab are trustable. Does anyone here has some ideas as of what happens? Thanks in advance. MSYS revision 1.0.10, zonelab version 6.5.700.000 Antispyware ver 5.0.83.0, DAT file ver 01.200609.355 Nam Pham |