Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <37897458.4D47FD33@dgs.monash.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:51:36 +1000 From: Brendan Simon Reply-To: brendan@dgs.monash.edu.au Organization: CTAM Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ajoy Victor CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Problems with Hello World. References: <19990712034632.AAA17768@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ajoy Victor wrote: > [~] $hello > BASH.EXE: hello: command not found UNIX type shells work a little differently to MS-DOS shells. MS-DOS shells will try to find an executable in the current directory by default where as UNIX shells will not. You have to type "./hello" or "./hello.exe" for it to work. You can add the current directory to your path with "export PATH=.:$PATH" and then you can just type "hello" or "hello.exe". Put the above export statement in one of your startup scripts. eg. .bashrc, .profile, etc. Another thing is to make sure the file has executable permissions. Use "chmod +x " to give the permissions. I can see by your directory listing that the file has the correct permissions so that is OK. The file is very big due to debugging info probably. You can try "strip hello.exe" to remove this. Hope this helps a bit, Brendan Simon. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com