Re: Cygwin (gnu) path problem, cannot find g++/make...

[crea]

"Jeffrey Schwab" <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:41:14 AM UTC-4, crea wrote:
>> Installed cygwin. bin folder: C:\cygwin\bin
>>
>> if I do mount in bin, I get: c:/cygwin/bin
>>
>> if I do path
>
> I think you mean cd.

I mean, if I type "path" in dos promth. it will output the path variable 
value.

>
>> in dos promth (I did put this path to path-variable obviously)
>> I get: c:\cygwin\bin
>>
>> So everything should be ok? But I get error "'make' is not recognized as 
>> an
>> internal or external command..." if I try to use gnu compiler. So 
>> obviously
>> it cannot see the bin folder.
>
> How do you figure?  Is make in /bin?

yes, all the compiler exe s are there. And if I run them from there (bin) 
they do work. But the point is that I cannot run the compiler from 
elsewhere.