I have cygwin installed also.  But it was pretty easy to test.  Just
copy any of the exe's from your Cygwin bin directory to some temp
directory.  Open a command prompt into that directory.  Reset PATH to be
just the current directory.  Run cp.exe (or whatever you copied) and
voila, it doesn't work. :)

=jason

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 23:59, Jason Dufair wrote:
> I'm afraid that cygwin is the first thing that goes on any Windows pc I 
> own, so I can't test either.  But didn't the make, gcc, etc in your 
> "toolkit" come from some other source besides cygwin (like mingw - 
> something I'm utterly unfamiliar with)?  If so, does that source include 
> cp and rm?
> 
> I was able to build the vm, by the way.  Thanks for the excellent 
> instructions.  It was relatively painless for something that, under the 
> hood, is a pretty complex beast.  I'm now hacking the libmpeg stuff to 
> get it to play nice with id3v2 tags once and for all.  It appears that 
> Heroine virtual is AWOL, so I'm not hacking on the original source 
> anymore.  Additionally, it looks like they're going to roll libmpeg into 
> another one of their projects anyway.  It might be nice to update our 
> libmpeg3 to a more recent version of heroine's tree, however.  The 
> latest has some nice buffered I/O going on.  I may play with that after 
> I get the id3 stuff fixed.
> 
> Then it's on to bigger and better things like libvorbis!
> 
> Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> >Jason,
> >
> >Thanks for the info. Do you know if these commands will run without the
> >cygwin dll?! I haven't bothered to check but I know that almost
> >everything that's been built using the Cygwin tool chain links to this
> >dll.
> >
> >[Note that I can't test it since I _do_ have Cygwin installed so the DLL
> >is already on my machine].
> >
> >Cheers,
> >  - Andreas
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> >>[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> >>Behalf Of Jason Dufair
> >>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:35 PM
> >>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> >>Subject: A small suggestion (was: Re: [Win32] VM update (3.2 
> >>release candidate))
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Andreas -
> >>
> >>I just have one small suggestion to make.  I'm building the 3.2.1 vm 
> >>>from sources on Win2K and it's having trouble with the copy and del 
> >>commands (which are built into cmd.exe on the NT variants of 
> >>Windows). 
> >> Even with a cmd /C copy and such, it seems to lose the 
> >>current dir and 
> >>complains about files not found and such.  My suggestion:  include 
> >>copies of rm.exe and cp.exe in the toolset and change the makefile to 
> >>use these (converting backslashes to slashes as well).  This seems to 
> >>work fine on my machine (where I have cygwin in the path *after* the 
> >>tools you packaged, of course).  Let me know if you want a patch or 
> >>anything.
> >>
> >>Andreas Raab wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
> 
>