On 10/18/2024 5:36 PM, KARR, DAVID via Cygwin wrote:
I'm looking at a situation where I'm going to need to write a small application
that takes a command line to run, but first gets some data from an external
source and sets environment variables from the response, so those variables are
set i
I'm looking at a situation where I'm going to need to write a small application
that takes a command line to run, but first gets some data from an external
source and sets environment variables from the response, so those variables are
set in the subshell it starts. It would be straightforward
On 2024-10-18 13:51, Mark Aitchison via Cygwin wrote:
On 19/10/24 07:08, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
I'm gonna go with this is an unfixable problem. The quality of the workers is
for the most part so bad, you can't manager your way to a solution.
Unfortunately, modern life requires way more
Hello everybody,
In a GitHub Action running on windows-2022 [1], I have a couple of
steps like this:
-
name: Download Cygwin installer
shell: pwsh
run: |
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
-OutFile C:\CygwinInstaller.exe
$expectedHash = (Invoke-WebRequest -Ur
On 10/18/2024 3:44 PM, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 02:09:31 PM EDT, Jim Garrison via Cygwin
wrote:
Most university courses in "software engineering" don't begin to cover
the actual knowledge base and, more importantly, internal mental
processes, discipline
On Friday, October 18, 2024 03:32 PM, Sam Edge expressed:
> If you're building executables or libraries for use without Cygwin, you
> should be using a Microsoft or MSYS2/MinGW native (or Cygwin MinGW
> cross) toolchain and pointing it to Windows native Tcl libraries. Tcl
> libraries built for Cyg
On 19/10/24 07:08, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
I'm gonna go with this is an unfixable problem. The quality of the workers is for the
most part so bad, you can't manager your way to a solution.
Unfortunately, modern life requires way more code than the handful of actually good
programmers ca
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 02:09:31 PM EDT, Jim Garrison via Cygwin
wrote:
> Most university courses in "software engineering" don't begin to cover
> the actual knowledge base and, more importantly, internal mental
> processes, discipline and curiosity required to do quality software
My 2
Very very interesting discussion.
Nowadays many problems seem to be solved by adding another layer of
indirection/abstraction which likely absorbs a lot of the increasing processing
power, available memory etc. introduced by each new generation of hardware.
Eventually, the sheer number of layer
On 18/10/2024 20:19, José Isaías Cabrera wrote:
I am using cygwin to build an x32 DLL and a x64 sqlite3.exe tool to use
outside cygwin. Everything was working find until Dr. Hipp made some
changes which broke my process. This is good enough for now.
Hi José.
If you're building executables or
On Friday, October 18, 2024 02:22 PM, Sam Edge expressed:
> samedge@gwaihir ~
> $ find / -xdev -iname '*libtcl*'
[clip]
> (/lib == /usr/lib, /bin == /usr/bin)
>
> If that doesn't get you what you need, try
> find / -xdev -iname '*tcl*'
> which reveals everything tclish plus some red herrings, na
On Friday, October 18, 2024 02:08 PM, Jim Garrison expressed:
> I have an analogy. Coding is like playing the recorder (fipple-flute,
> "English flute", etc). Any 6-year-old can learn the fingerings well
> enough to carry a tune, but drive to insanity anybody within earshot.
> Learning to code
On 18/10/2024 19:00, José Isaías Cabrera wrote:
gcc -shared tclsqlite3.c -o libsqlite3.47.0.dll -Wl,-ltclstub8.6
-L/wherever/your/libtcl/is
samedge@gwaihir ~
$ find / -xdev -iname '*libtcl*'
/bin/libtcl8.6.dll
/lib/libtcl.dll.a
/lib/libtcl8.6.dll.a
/lib/libtclstub.a
/lib/libtclstub8.6.a
/usr/b
On 10/17/2024 10:06, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 11:07:50 PM EDT, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin
wrote:
The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the
collective power to fix it.
ahem, Microsoft would like to enter the chat...
App
On Monday, October 14, 2024 02:56 PM, Sam Edge expressed:
> Hi José.
>
> Make sure to install both the tcl package and the matching tcl-devel
> package so that you get all the required headers. In addition, you and
Yes, already have that installed.
> SQLite was actually developed primarily as a
Hi folks,
I had to revert 9.1, as with 9.1+, cp fails to overwrite existing files even
with -f and just complains the files exist!
I have traced the heck out of the operations and have been unable to track down
exactly what it is (not?) doing to decide not to check if the files exist and
not
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Hi all,
we also run into issues with 9.0 due to the incorrect handling of symlinks.
The coreutils Cygwin repository already includes 9.4 and 9.2 on the
playground branch [1]. Any plans to release one of these versions?
TIA David
[1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/coreutils/log/?h=p
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