I don't know anything about python but want to use cygwin's python from nodejs with npm-gyp. The npm-gyp module is trying to find the python executable path from sys.executable and fails. While investigating this I found this to me quite inconsistent behavior:
cygwin> /bin/python3.6m.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /bin/python3.6m cygwin> python3.6m -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /usr/bin/python3.6m cygwin> python3.6 -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /usr/bin/python3.6 cygwin> python3.6m.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /usr/bin/python3.6m cmd> c:/MyStuff/NCygwin64/bin/python3.6m.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /usr/bin/python3.6m cmd> rem add cygwin path to Windows: cmd> path %PATH%;c:\MYSTUFF\ncygwin64\bin cmd> python3.6m.exe -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable);' /c/MYSTUFF/ncygwin64/bin/python3.6m With CMD I'll never get an executable that actually works from cmd. Is this expected? Is there a way around to make this work? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
