Installing cygwin error

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I'm attempting to install cygwin on windows XP for rockbox development.  I downloaded the base packages and then was running cygwin/setup.exe a second time to install the addition packages from download.rockbox.org.

I get to a window with Cygwin Setup in the title bar that says "Progress   This page displays the progress of the download or installation." and then I get a popup titled "Parse Errors" with window contents saying "http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/ /setup.ini line 1: syntax error, unexpected LT, expecting $end"   [OK]

Any idea how to get past this?  Is there a manual way to download and install the packages without relying on this script?

Thanks,
Todd Allen

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Check out the "install:" lines on http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/setup.ini

They're relative, so e.g. release/sdl/sdl-1.2.9-1.tar.bz2 becomes http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/release/sdl/sdl-1.2.9-1.tar.bz2

EDIT:

You don't need the files on the "install:" lines under "[prev]".

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Should I grab the tar files with ftp and unpack them manually?  If I do this, will any bookkeeping of what I have installed be impaired?

[cool_walking_]

I suppose cygwin won't let you uninstall them, but does it matter?

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Probably doesn't matter, but if there was an installer app that I could run locally that did it the same as the automatic web based setup I'd try that first.  I guess another possibility would be to copy the entire directory tree and see if I can point cygwin/setup.exe at my local copy.  Then I might be able to figure out why the .ini script is failing and perhaps correct it.

But, unsure of what to do last night I started the vmware downloads (player & image) and I'm going to give them a shot this morning.

[cool_walking_]

Yeah, seems like people are liking VMWare more than Cygwin.  I use Linux primarily, but when on Windows I prefer Cygwin to VMWare - call me weird.

I thought of this before but didn't think it worth mentioning, and I suppose you already noticed this, but the fact that http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/setup.ini looks fine to me syntactically, and the error referred to http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/ /setup.ini ... you could be getting the 404 html page, and cygwin chokes on that.

Did you copy-paste http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/ into the "user URL" box? If so, you might have picked up that trailing space, so cygwin is looking in the wrong place.

EDIT: err.. or not, because you don't type the "/cygwin/" part...

setup.exe pointed at download.rockbox.org is working fine for me.

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I did cut and paste and it's possible I picked up an extraneous char but I tried it several times and did some variations like with and without the trailing slash, so I ought to have caught a trailing space.  I did notice that the reported path looked munged.

Anyway, the VMWARE method worked well.  I'm building, editing, executing, etc. under it.  Now I'm trying to get SAMBA networking going between windows and the VMWARE image.

I still have the partial CYGWIN installation and one of these days I'll take another stab at completing it as it would seem to offer a little more flexibility although I may be perfectly satisfied with the VMWARE approach as I gain more experience with it.