> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe
> > I think it may be designed to deal only with actual executables (.exe files). > The wording of the man page is ambiguous, but suggestive of this in that it > speaks of "Windows programs". > > So maybe you want: run /bin/bash -c /path/to/hashbang/script > > This worked for me with a trival mintty-starting hash-bang bash script. > > Regards -- Eliot Moss I found your reply on the mailing list archives and quoted it above. Yes, the same approach worked for me (in my original question I used perl rather than bash -c, since my script was written in perl). That's mainly an annoyance that I have to specify the interpreter directly, rather than use the shebang line. But I'm trying to get confirmation that it's not a "bug" but rather the way run.exe was designed. However, do you have any ideas about the flashing window which appears and then immediately disappears before the mintty terminal starts? That's a show-stopper. I thought that was what run.exe was supposed to prevent by making that console window hidden? Do you get the same flashing console window with your trivial mintty-starting script? -- John ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Wiersba <jrw32...@yahoo.com> > To: "m...@cs.umass.edu" <m...@cs.umass.edu>; "cygwin@cygwin.com" > <cygwin@cygwin.com> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:39 PM > Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe > > Eliot, > > I'm sorry for double posting. I subscribed this morning, sent back the > confirmation email, posted my question and...didn't hear anything. I never > got my original question from the list nor your reply. Not in my inbox nor > in > my spam folder. I figured that my question must have somehow been discarded > because I wasn't registered on the list yet. > > After an hour or two, I tried resubscribing to the list (I was already > subscribed) and then reposted my question. I did later see an announcement > from > Corinna, a post from Ken Brown about emacs and ispell, an announcement from > Jon > Turney, a post from Christian Franke about exec and PATH, and finally another > emacs post from Ken Brown. > > > I will check the list archives for your reply, since I still don't know what > it is. Thanks in advance for your reply. > > > -- John > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Cc: jrw32...@yahoo.com >> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:34 PM >> Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe >> >> On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty >> indirectly by running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can > >> start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is > to >> wrap the invocation in the proper environment and arguments. >>> >>> I'm encountering two problems using run.exe: >>> >>> 1) run.exe doesn't seem to be able to run a hashbang script. My > script >> starts with #!/usr/bin/perl and runs just fine from a cygwin bash command > line, >> starting a new mintty terminal as expected. But calling it from run.exe > fails. >> Clicking on the shortcut flashes some kind of terminal window on the > screen, >> which appears to have no content (but it is hard to tell, since it flashes > so >> quickly) and then the terminal window immediately closes. In this case, my >> shortcut target is: d:\cygwin\bin\run.exe > /path/to/hashbang/script. >>> >>> 2) When I change my shortcut target to: d:\cygwin\run.exe > perl >> /path/to/hashbang/script, then it runs the script and starts a mintty > terminal >> session, but I still get the flashing terminal window before the eventual > mintty >> starts, which I don't want. I thought the purpose of run.exe was to > hide >> such a terminal window? There must be something I'm not understanding > about >> how run.exe works or its purpose. >>> >>> >>> Finally, is there any way I can debug what's going on without >> rebuilding run.exe? For example, can I prevent the flashing window from >> flashing so quickly (in case there's a message displayed there). >> >> You posted this same question this morning ... >> >> And I answered it about 20 minutes later. >> >> Why are you posting again? You risk annoying the >> list subscribers ... >> >> Regards -- Eliot Moss >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
