Need a windoze developer's help.

[phreakonaleash]

I need the help of an experienced windows developer. heck you don't even need to be experienced, as long as you know the API. I am trying to create a wrapper for Cygwin.

Here is what i would like:


start
find out what drive it is on
see if cygwin is installed (look for the needed keys)
if cygwin is not installed
add keys to the registry that create the mount points and the other data that needs to be in the registry. specifically, the mounts point to a location on the drive it is running
launch bash (the switches needed are in the cygwin.bat file)
after bash exits, delete the keys it created (only if it created them and they weren't already there)
exit


is this feasible? if so, would anyone be willing to help me? mail me (mailto:phrkonaleash@gmail.com) if interested

Thanks for the help,

[I love my mom]

You can just check the registry for cygwin. At least that's what I'd do off of the top of my head. Windows provides many options however, so it takes a bit of consideration.

[phreakonaleash]

I am not famailiar with the API though. I have dev-C++ and gcc (existing cygwin install) for the development, thus no docs.

The reasoning here is so that it can be installed to a USB stick and run on various computers with as little footprints as possible.

[I love my mom]

Google it :D It always works. Something like check application installation windows.

[phreakonaleash]

will do when i am having a few minutes (in a few hours)

[phreakonaleash]

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/

even easier ;-) i am doing this right now.