cygrunsrv --install --user : avoid having to enter the user's password

2019-05-19 Thread Irfan Adilovic
Hi, (All actions here assume an elevated mintty terminal) I have the need to automate the installation of autossh as a windows service (=> several dozen autossh services) and when installing as a local user, the password prompt is an issue. Is there a way to add windows services with cygrunsrv

Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

2019-05-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-05-19 13:43, Bob Cochran wrote: > In case you're not familiar with it, OpenOCD is a hardware debugger that > natively runs on Linux:  http://openocd.org/ > > We use it for embedded hardware development in debugging our ARM and FPGA code > via JTAG (e.g., set breakpoints, step through code,

Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

2019-05-19 Thread LRN
On 19.05.2019 22:43, Bob Cochran wrote: > And, I received the > following feedback: > > "Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered a > (pre)historic solution." > > I personally have been using Cygwin for many years and have come to > trust it for interfacing to Linux

Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

2019-05-19 Thread Bob Cochran
Hi, In case you're not familiar with it, OpenOCD is a hardware debugger that natively runs on Linux:  http://openocd.org/ We use it for embedded hardware development in debugging our ARM and FPGA code via JTAG (e.g., set breakpoints, step through code, etc.).   For our use, it interfaces to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] python-pygame 1.9.6-1

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * python27-pygame-1.9.6-1 * python36-pygame-1.9.6-1 * python37-pygame-1.9.6-1 Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. It is written on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully fe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-free 1.12.5-2

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-free-1.12.5-2 * gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-doc-1.12.5-2 GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playbac

[ANNOUNCEMENT] smpeg 0.4.4-13, smpeg2 2.0.0-1

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libsmpeg0.4_0-0.4.4-13 * libsmpeg-devel-0.4.4-13 * libsmpeg2_2.0_0-2.0.0-1 * libsmpeg2-devel-2.0.0-1 SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support, based on SDL. SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libmpeg2 0.5.1-11

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libmpeg2_0-0.5.1-11 * libmpeg2-devel-0.5.1-11 * mpeg2dec-0.5.1-11 libmpeg2 is a free library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. This has been added as the previously encumbering patents have finally expired. --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] brotli 1.0.7-1

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * brotli-1.0.7-1 * libbrotlicommon1-1.0.7-1 * libbrotlidec1-1.0.7-1 * libbrotlienc1-1.0.7-1 * libbrotli-devel-1.0.7-1 * python27-brotli-1.0.7-1 * python36-brotli-1.0.7-1 * python37-brotli-1.0.7-1 Brotli is a generic-purpose los

Re: libxml2-devel package: missing dependency libiconv-devel

2019-05-19 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 14:21 +0200, Simon Sobisch wrote: > Seen when using a fresh CI environment with only libxml2-devel added by > cygwin setup on running a configure script: [snip] > As libxml2-devel provides a header that has a hard dependency on iconv.h > it should also include a dependency lib

libxml2-devel package: missing dependency libiconv-devel

2019-05-19 Thread Simon Sobisch
Seen when using a fresh CI environment with only libxml2-devel added by cygwin setup on running a configure script: configure:14477: checking for pkg-config configure:14495: found /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:14507: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:14532: checking pkg-config is at least vers

Re: How to install gcc and g++ 6 on cygwin which are not on the setup.exe

2019-05-19 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 4:57 AM Jack wrote: > > On 5/18/19 9:24 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > > How do I uninstall the installation that I created with the building of > > gcc6? I did a search on duckduckgo for, > > > > cygwin how to uninstall gcc after building it > > > > and found nothing th