MinGW provides a complete open source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any third-party C runtime DLLs. (It does depend on a number of DLLs provided by Microsoft, as components of the operating system; most ...
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'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command: Even when there is nothing about perl?
Ok, I just installed MinGW on my PC and to used g++ command on cmd and it says,
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I just checked PATH ...
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rm on MINGW32, cannot unlink not owner
Similar to rm on cygwin, cannot unlink not owner, but for MINGW32. I tried chmod u+w path but this did not help.
user@computer /d
$ rm dir -d
rm: cannot unlink `dir': Not owner
user@computer /d
$ ...
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ls Case-insensitive sorting in MINGW32 (msysgit)
Using MINGW32 (msysgit), I'd like to be able to have the results of 'ls' sorted actually alphabetically, without regard to case. Is this possible?
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MinGW interactive shell?
I see that MinGW shell launches with
sh --login -i
Another way to launch would be like this
sh --login
I know that -i is for interactive shell, but I am not seeing a difference between the two ...
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MinGW Bash Profile
I use MinGW on windows 7. I have a .bashrc with some aliases in it. The file is in my home folder which is where minGW starts me in, so it also believes that the folder is my home folder. It does not ...
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'unlink' command on msys
I'm executing a bootstrap on msys, but the process terminates with the message:
../bootstrap: line 199: unlink: command not found
I am a bit surprised that the unlink command is not inherent in ...
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Bash mingw change behavior of readline overnight
Yesterday everything was working fine, but today things got crazy. Git no longer produces colors, the delete character produces ~ as well as the endline, begin, end, etc. And finally, when a line if ...
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accessing the mapped network drives using mingw shell
How to access the mapped network drives from the mingw shell? When I try
cd y: or cd /y or y:
All I get is No such file or directory or sh.exe y:: command not found.
I am able to access the same ...
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mktorrent not working on Windows
I'm trying to get mktorrent working on Windows. I've compiled both 32-bit and 64-bit versions using MinGW, and the program compiles and executes flawlessly. However, for some reason, it lists the size ...
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run program packed in sh file
I downloaded jgit packed in sh file and ran it in mingw. I watched in process list that java process was started just with main class and parameters
"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin\java.exe" ...
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make: Interrupt/Exception caught
I'm using Make from the MinGW distribution. It has always worked, but recently I've gotten the following error:
> make clean
make: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc0000005, addr = 0x0040b0ac)
...
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installing sha1sum on git-bash (mingw)
I've been using git-bash on Windows 7 a lot. I gather it is a wrapper of mingw. It has md5sum but not sha1sum. I'd like to install sha1sum but I can't figure out how.
When I try mingw-get, it says ...
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git log behaves like less
git log -{n}, when -n is sufficiently small, doesn't open in less it simply prints it to the screen. That's desirable. git log -1 should not take up the full screen.
Unfortunately, in MINGW's ...
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I can't see MSYS home directory under Windows 7's file explorer
I'm using MSYS (MinGW UNIX environment) to get a working UNIX-like environment on my Windows 7 workstation. When I start the MinGW shell, I can see that my home directory is /home/oded.a, and running ...
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Where is and how to install i686-pc-mingw32-c++?
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu. I try to install i686-pc-mingw32-c++ required by a third-party Makfile by: sudo apt-get install mingw32, sudo apt-get install mingw32-runtime and sudo apt-get ...
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I/O redirection using cygwin and mingw
I have written a program in C and have compiled it using MinGW. When I try to run that program in Cygwin, it seems to behave normally (i.e. prints correct output etc.)
However, I'm trying to pipe ...
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Best Unix-like environment for windows [closed]
I'm a fan of cygwin, I've found it easiest to get working. I've tried Windows Services for Unix and MinGW, and found to be alot more work to get set up.
Can I get some opinions about the pros and ...
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How can I install GnuTLS in MinGW/MSYS?
I've installed MinGW and MSYS on my Windows XP machine and now I want to compile an application which requires the GnuTLS libraries.
How do I install that package?
I tried mingw-get install ...
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Windows XP Create Console Shortcuts for Applications
I have become a fervent console user since I began using the linux shell in my daily workflow.
I want to be able to call "C:\Program Files\Application\Application.exe" as application from the command ...
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191 views
Perl 5 install not seen when running config
I'm helping a friend who's doing development work using MinGW. One of the components he is working with is OpenSSL (v1.0.0a).
When running the "./config" file for OpenSSL on the MSYS command prompt, ...
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602 views
MinGW tar compression problem
I am unable to get the Mingw tar to work with compress files. It does not filter through the proper compression utility. However, tar will work if I manually uncompress the file first. I have tried in ...
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How do I stop MSYS from transforming my compiler options?
Is there a way to stop MSYS/MinGW from transforming what it thinks are paths on my command lines? I have a project that's using nmake & Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (yeecccch). I have the build ...
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282 views
Is there a shell that has tabs that you can use with mingw?
I don't mean tabbed completion.
I mean tabs like what firefox, chrome etc have, that you can switch between.
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.inputrc settings: delete-char and [] keybindings not working
I am using mingw under windows. When I am using ruby (irb) my 'special' characters like []{} and \ are not working. This is because of my german keyboard, where these keys are used together with AltGr ...
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can't make nodejs mingw32: pkg-config can't find gnutils
I'm trying to compile nodejs using MSYS, mingw32 on windows7-64
Valentin Golev@VALYASNOTEBOOK /home/Valentin_Golev/nodejs
$ ./configure
Checking for program CL : ok C:\Program Files ...
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Why isn't mingw32's find command printing all files on c:?
I'm using mingw32 (as packaged by msysgit for windows), and I'm trying to list all the files on my C drive. I would expect
find /c
to do this. However, this is not what I'm seeing (in an mingw32 ...
