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Windows PATH Pecking Order

Just a reminder to the crazy JDK Windows developers out there ;^) The order of paths in the PATH variable is critical:

First Visual Studio Then CYGWIN Lastly the Windows system32 directories

The link.exe needs to come from Visual Studio, not CYGWIN. And the standard Unix utility named tools (like grep) need to come from CYGWIN.

-kto

Posted at 09:56AM Aug 13, 2009 by kto in Java  |  Comments[2]

Comments:

my solution is "rm cygwin/bin/link.exe" just to be sure..

Posted by Dmitri Trembovetski on August 13, 2009 at 03:51 PM PDT #

i mv cygwin's link.exe to another name.

it's very simple to start a visual studio command prompt and call cygwin.bat from there. translating MSVARS.BAT to a cygwin script is horrible.

Posted by weijun on August 13, 2009 at 05:55 PM PDT #

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