Access is Denied

[Jim Menkevich]

$ windres --version
GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.20
Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later
version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.

I checked the permissions to TMP and TEMP (which point to the same
location):
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

And I had all permissions to that directory.

However, when I echo'ed these in Cygwin, they came back as empty.  Do I have
to set these up in my .bashrc file?

Thanks,

Jim

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:40, Jim Menkevich <jim.menkevich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yao,
> > On Windows 7, I selected to run Cygwin as Adminstrator and then I change
> the
> > permissions on the libpurple/win32 directory and all the files in the
> > directory:
> > chmod -Rf 777 libpurple/win32
> > drwxrwxrwx+ 1 testing None   4096 2010-08-11 15:48 win32
> > I'm still getting the same error.
> > So I tried to just execute the binary by itself and I still get  the same
> > message.
> > $ windres
> > Access is denied.
> > C:\cygwin\home\testing\pidgin-dev\win32-dev\mingw\bin\windres.exe:
> > preprocessin
> > g failed.
> > So I checked the permissions on that and I'm good there as well.
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 testing None  678912 2009-10-23 19:11 windres.exe
> > I confirmed by executing '--help' on the binary and that worked without
> an
> > issue.
> > Does any of this info help?
>
> You really shouldn't have to compile stuff as Adminstrator - I don't.
>
> Check the permissions on $TMP and $TEMP.  It could be that windres is
> writing stuff there temporarily.
>
> Which version of windres do you have (`windres --version`)?
>
> -D
>
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