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I used cygwin to work in windows, however now I have a problem here.

Since I put my cygwin on D:\cygwin, when I try to run a program, namely ocamldep.exe, it returns a path error which I don't know how to fix.

The error is as follow.

/bin/sh: D:cygwinbinocamldep.exe: command not found

I know for sure they dont have cygwinbinocamldep.exe, but how to change this into ocamldep.exe only? Sorry but I'm really a dummy in Unix and everything on it.

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There's something wrong with your path. My guess is that string "D:\cygwin\bin\ocamldep.exe" is passed to sh, which then does backslash removal and ends up with D:\cygwinbinocamldep.exe.

Post, please, what's in your $PATH variable: echo $PATH will tell what's its value.

Apart of that you may try to run D:\cygwin\bin\ocamldep.exe, /cygwin/bin/ocamldep.exe or /bin/ocamldep.exe (first one is windows path with UN*X style backslashes, second and third are native UN*X paths, one of these might work).

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C:\Program Files\PC Connectivity Solution\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\System32;D:\Software\Office;D:\Software\Office\ps2pdf;‌​D:\Software\Kuliah\XML Data Management\grep-2.5.4-bin\bin\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin; D:\Software\Kuliah\Semantic Web Technologies\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared; .;C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin; D:\Software\Programming\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin; C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin;D:\cygwin\bin;D:\masm32\bin – zfm May 6 '11 at 7:33
This doesn't look good. According to cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html windows format PATH should be converted to UN*X format by the batch that starts your shell. – Paweł Brodacki May 6 '11 at 7:40
@Pawel: I had that error too, but I have removed the "dos warning" on windows too and it worked for other command (like ocamlc.exe or ocamlopt.exe), but I will give it a try. – zfm May 6 '11 at 7:55
@Pawel: I have changed the path (at least for the cygwin) and then I got even a more trivial error You need Cygwin on Windows to build with Ocamlbuild. Please install in ... – zfm May 6 '11 at 8:08
I'm not sure what you mean by changing path for cygwin. What I mean is that your $PATH should show UN*X-like paths with directory names separated by "/", not "\". You have to solve this problem to have programs running. Maybe this FAQ cs.nyu.edu/~yap/prog/cygwin/FAQs.html will help you. – Paweł Brodacki May 6 '11 at 8:22
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