Running Framework2 and Framework3 for Windows on the same box

[tyggerbob at gmail.com (Bob Davies)]

Thanks Jerome, even :)
Doh!

On 12/6/06, Bob Davies <tyggerbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jeremy.
> hehehe.. I was just about to write an email saying how everything is
> working great after copying the cywin1.dll from the MSF3 bin directory to
> the MSF2 bin directory, when I noticed that when I run msfconsole.bat from
> ..\framework2\bin, it runs MSF 3! That would explain why it was whining
> about the cygwin.dll version in the first place.
> I'm wondering if there is some environment variable set during the MSF3
> install that is overriding something  in MSF2 and telling it to use the MSF3
> path or something?.
>
> BTW, for the most part, I do and prefer to do this stuff in Linux, but I'm
> setting up a demon environment where I'm restricted to Windows at the moment
> :)  Having them in parallel works fine on my Linux box :)
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On 12/6/06, Jerome Athias <jerome.athias at free.fr> wrote:
> > This is a possible workaround (maybe not the best!)
> >
> > Do a search to identify Windows programs that use cygwin1.dll and have
> > their own versions of this dll.  Rename their versions as something
> > simple (ie cygwin1X.dll ) and modify the Windows path to include
> > c:\cygwin\bin (default path if you used setup.exe of cygwin), or
> > whatever bin directory is off the cygwin root directory.   This prevents
> > multiple versions of the cygwin1.dll from running at the same time.
> > To get to the Windows path, right click "My Computer" icon, "Properties"
> > option, choose "Advanced" tab, then "Environment Variables" button to
> > get to the User variables.  Then either define a new variable PATH or
> > edit it to include c:\cygwin\bin (directories within the PATH variable
> > are separated by semi-colons)..
> >
> > (Add or set the Windows environment variable HOME  to  c:\ -- this is
> > where you wind up when you type cd  at a Cygwin prompt.)
> >
> > ... you could also use Linux ;-X
> >
> > good luck
> > /JA
> >
> > Bob Davies a ?crit :
> > > Hi all :)
> > > One other quick question on that note..
> > > Are there interdependencies between the various cygwin dll's that
> > > might get bunged if I just copy the one cywin1.dll file over, or do I
> > > need to copy all of them over from one bin directory to the other?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > Bob
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