you can find the perl in Interpreters category

I thought perl would be in the category named "Perl" and didn't select "Interpreters" .... silly me. (I also selected both "Base" and "Devel" for installation - as well as a number of other categories.)

Unfortunately, whenever I rerun setup.exe, no matter what I select, it doesn't install anything, but just tells me that nothing needs to be installed. I downloaded the lot, btw - all 600-odd MB (inadvertently, of course).

Anyway, some parts have obviously been installed as there's a desktop icon I can click on to open Cygwin's bash shell. All I have to do is work out how to install the other bits I want - which is basically just perl and gcc. Apparently I haven't worked out how to operate setup.exe correctly ... I'll try to follow the documentation on the Cygwin website. In the meantime, if someone has advice that may be useful, please be forthcoming with it.

Could I (eg) extract the various relevant tar.bz2 files that I downloaded to E:/cygwin ? I just tried that with gcc-core-3.4.4-1.tar.bz2 and, so long as I add /cygdrive/e/usr/bin to $PATH, then 'gcc -v' outputs what it should.

Anyway, don't anybody stress too much. I realize this was always OT, and if it gets too frustrating for me I'm happy just to chuck it all to the shithouse. I'm quite comfortable building and running perl on both linux and windows (both mingw-built and msvc-built) so I don't really need the aggravation of coming to terms with Cygwin. Basically, I was bored and looking at extending my horizons a little .... but maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew.

Thanks for the replies so far received, guys

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Where does Cygwin put perl ? by syphilis
in thread Where does Cygwin put perl ? by syphilis

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