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