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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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'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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Making `#!/usr/bin/env python` work on Windows
I use Bash on Windows, provided by MSYS.
I tried to run a Python file with a shebang of #!/usr/bin/env python, but I get this error message:
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
What ...
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Unicode-based POSIX tools (other than Cygwin) for Windows?
GNU Win32 and MSYS are awesome, but it seems like all of their tools use the ANSI version of the Windows API, rather than the Unicode versions.
Obviously, those are meant for Windows 95 and 98, not ...
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mingw/msys with vi, ctags support?
I'm trying to run vim on win7 inside msys (which isnt entirely necessary, i know i can run gvim in windows, but i'd like to be able to use vi inside terminal)
everything installs fine with mingw-get ...
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wget -nd (--no-directories) option not working as expected
I am using wget 1.12 (in msys if it makes a difference) and am trying to mirror a website with the -nd option, since the file and folder names on this site are very long. The docs state that
‘-nd’
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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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sh.exe and ls significantly slower than usual on MSYS bash and GIT
I use MSYS Git and have the MSYS shell installed. I run Windows XP. All of the sudden basic tasks like runnig ls take many many seconds (>7 seconds) in the Git Bash shell or in the MSYS shell.
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How to do a silent install of MSYS on WIndows XP
I have to install a set of development tools that includes MSYS 1.0.11 on a bunch of Windows XP boxes.
Every other tool is built with MSI or can simply be untarred or unzipped to the relevant install ...
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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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MSYS: alias resets upon restarting MSYS console
Every time I reopen the MSYS console (not cmd.exe) I find that the aliases that I have added to the shell are cleared. How can I save my aliases so that I do not to reenter them on every use?
For ...
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Is there a way to run git within Powershell?
Is there a way to run git within Powershell?
I have a Windows 7 box with msysgit. I'd like to have a single shell to also run all my git commands as well as play around with Powershell scripting.
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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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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 ...
