Migrating from LUU-SUA setup to LUU-Cygwin setup

This section of the guide provides instruction on how to migrate from LUU-SUA setup to LUU-Cygwin setup, which applies to Windows 2008 operating system only. Windows 2012 users must use the LUU-Cygwin setup.

  1. Open Programs and Features from the Control Panel, and click on Turn Windows Features On or Off.

    Windows Features dialog window opens.

  2. Clear the POSIX Subsystem option

    Use the utility.

  3. In the Programs and Features window, select Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Application (SUA) from the Uninstall or change a program list and click Uninstall.
  4. Select LUU from the Uninstall or change a program list and click Uninstall.

    It is recommended to delete the contents of the existing LUU directory before installing LUU for Cygwin.

  5. Ensure that you remove the path to SUA from the PATH environment variable.
  6. Install Cygwin.

    Follow the steps in installing Cygwin on Installing Cygwin.

  7. Install LUU for Cygwin.

    Follow the steps in installing LUU on Installing Infor Lawson UNIX Utilities.

  8. Locate and run laconfig.
  9. Select your environment to configure, and click on Miscellaneous.
  10. Specify these fields:

    • LAW_UU_BIN=<path to Cygwin binaries>

    • LAW_UU_ROOT=<path to LUU Cygwin binaries>

    Note: When you create a mount point on fstab and the directory folder is two or more levels from the root folder, the mount point is not going to take effect unless an equivalent directory structure is created in <CygwinRoot>. .

    • The syntax of fstab entry structure:

      <native Windows path> /<mount point> <filesystem type> <mount options>

      Example: 

      C:/level1_folder/level2_folder /level1_folder/level2_folder ntfs noacl,posix=0,nouser

    • Create equivalent directory under <CygwinRoot>:

      Example:

      <CygwinRoot>/level1_folder/level2_folder