> > I am using DevKitAdv r5 beta3.

> check if there is more than one cygwin1.dll (i think that was the name
:=P) is

DevKit Advance R5 does not use cygwin1.dll, it is a mingw executable that
depends on msvcrt.dll

The shell tools are lifted from msys, and depend on msys-1.0.dll

The make.exe is the make.exe which comes with mingw, not msys

To get the tools to behave well, for beta 4, I created a tools directory
under the %DEVKITADV% directory (%DEVKITADV% should be set to the directory
where you installed DKA), and in that directory I created a mingw and msys
directory.

Like this:

%DEVKITADV%/tools/mingw
%DEVKITADV%/tools/msys

In the msys directory is the msys-1.0.dll and the shell tools like rm, ls,
touch, mkdir, mv, and cp. All these tools are copied from the msys
distribution.

In the mingw directory is make.exe. This make is copied from the make
package for mingw (and is different than the one provided with msys).

Put these directories in your path along with %DEVKITADV%/bin and it should
work.