whitton / atlantic.net (Travis Whitton) wrote in
<aWhT9.4907$M7.1388 / news.bellsouth.net>: 

>Hello, I recently switched from the one-click Windows installer ruby to
>cygwin ruby because I'm writing some C extensions. Everything has worked
>out great so far except for the fact that I can't start ruby outside of
>the cygwin environment. I need a way to invoke my script without my users
>having to go into cygwin and manually type ruby program.exe. Right now,
>ruby is installed in C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin. I've tried adding that
>directory to my Windows path, but I get "A required .DLL file,
>CYGWIN1.DLL, was not found.". I'm using the latest cygwin and ruby 1.6.8.
>The program I'm attempting to run is 
>C:\cygwin\home\Solids\libserial-0.2\wedge.rb, which translates to 
>/home/Solids/libserial-0.2/wedge.rb inside of cygwin. 
>
>Any help would be greatly apprecitaed,
>Travis Whitton <whitton / atlantic.net>

Try adding c:\cygwin\bin to the Windows path as well, and everything should
work . 

    AndyM