Re: Bison on Win32

[Nigel Stewart & Fiona Smith]

Ram,

I seems you may have missed a reply on the bison list,
in general it is much more polite and useful to keep things
on the mail list.

The most common way of using bison is from a Cygwin prompt,
but from your messages it's not clear if you are at a Cygwin
prompt, a Windows command prompt, or trying to launch bison
from a native windows application.

I suggest using bison from the Cygwin prompt to begin with,
to satisfy yourself that bison works.  It could also be
to do with the correct way of launching a cygwin binary
from a native windows app such as Visual C++.

Cygwin /tmp is a different kettle of fish to Windows TMP
or TEMP, or C:\Temp, etc...  The cygwin installer should
have created it properly...

Regards,

Nigel

Can you reproduce the following at the bash prompt?
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address@hidden ~$ bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 1.875
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
address@hidden ~$ ls -la /
total 227
drwxrwxrwx+   9 Administ None         4096 Dec  9 11:03 .
drwxrwxrwx+   9 Administ None         4096 Dec  9 11:03 ..
drwxrwxrwx+   3 Administ None       200704 Feb 10 02:32 bin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           94 Nov 26 22:20 c -> /cygdrive/c
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None          191 Nov 26 20:48 cygwin.bat
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           89 Aug  2  2002 cygwin.bat.bak
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None          766 Feb  6 00:40 cygwin.ico
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           94 Nov 26 22:20 d -> /cygdrive/d
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           94 Dec  9 11:03 e -> /cygdrive/e
drwxrwxrwx+  17 Administ None         8192 Jan 23 14:46 etc
drwxrwxrwx+   2 nigels   None            0 Aug  2  2002 home
drwxrwxrwx+  28 Administ None            0 Feb  6 00:40 lib
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           94 Nov 26 22:20 m -> /cygdrive/m
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nigels   None           94 Nov 26 22:20 n -> /cygdrive/n
drwxrwxrwx+  26 Administ None         8192 Feb 24 21:01 tmp
drwxrwxrwx+  20 Administ None         4096 Feb  6 00:40 usr
drwxrwxrwx+   9 Administ None            0 Jan  3 16:30 var
address@hidden ~$

Ramaswamy wrote:
> Yes, the c:/tmp directory exists (but the env vars's point to WINDOWS/TEMP
> dir). I'm not sure if the environment var's are correct. This is the 1st
> time I am using cygwin and I didn't find any doc on how to get it up. All of
> the packages are in bz2 format. These are the env variables set in
> autoexec -
> SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX
>
> And the path to cygnus's bin folder is also set. But I dont know where else
> the problem cud be. Kindly advise. Thanking you.
>
> Regds
> Ram