Re: Getting prc-tools-2.0.92-cygwin working

[David Starks-B. <st...@eb...>]

On Friday 20 Jul 01, Mike White writes:
> Just FYI.  If you don't have too much invested in your cygwin
> installation, an easy way to fix this problem is to just wipe it out 
> and install again, making sure to select DOS line feeds rather than the
> default of Unix.  All your mounts will be DOS when you launch cygwin,
> and a number of these kinds of problems will just go away.

I don't see why this should be necessary.  If the Palm SDK is the only
think with DOS endings, then you just need to be careful with the
/PalmDev mount:

	mount -f -t "C:\PalmDev" /PalmDev

In fact, I recommend the Installation Notes be changed to reflect
this.  (Though let me first successfully build a Palm app before you
believe anything I say about prc-tools and Cygwin...)

I'm a long time Cygwin user, and I personally prefer binary mounts.
So I ignored the advice to choose DOS line endings during Cygwin
Setup.  But I did have to mount /PalmDev in textmode.

If this were explained well in the Installation Notes, maybe Ton
wouldn't have to write a FAQ after all... :-)

On the other hand, if there were a prc-tools-on-cygwin FAQ, I'm
willing to research the "minimum Cygwin install", for those who don't
want/need a full Cygwin installation just to use prc-tools.  I'm
afraid it's not appropriate for the Cygwin FAQ.

Thanks to everyone for bringing prc-tools current with the latest
Cygwin.  I'm now hoping to become a PalmOS programmer!

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)