Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?

2015-11-02 Thread Darik Horn
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > The last time I checked (a few years ago), my understanding was the > cygwin dll's were licensed such that any programs using them had to be > GPL (or equivalent). > > Is that wrong? No, that is still the case: * https://cygwin.com/licens

Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?

2015-11-01 Thread Darik Horn
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Goldman wrote: > > What am I doing wrong? How do I use cygwin to compile the test ncurses > program so it can run in a dos terminal, independent of cygwin? I looked > around the docs and archives and could not figure out. Was libncurses built for the MinGW

Re: why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

2015-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Pageant does the same thing as gpg-agent, but works on both sides of > the Cygwin environment. Oops, GPG: This suggestion won't work in something that looks like a normal Cygwin environment. -- Problem reports: htt

Re: why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

2015-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > So, why isn't there a gpg-agent for Cygwin? Pageant does the same thing as gpg-agent, but works on both sides of the Cygwin environment. Install the ssh-pageant package through setup.exe and put something like this into the default shell

Re: Cygwin website uses http: (not https:) for .exe downloads, allowing man-in-the-middle attack

2015-02-26 Thread Darik Horn
Note that GPG signatures are published for the Cygwin setup binaries: * http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe.sig * http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm > quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow. Starting "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" through a "Run As Administrator" context doesn't produce an eleva

Re: Question about rxvt and the TERM variable

2014-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Brandon Huber wrote: > > are there any instances where using "xterm" would cause incorrect or > unexpected behavior? Compatibility commentary is available at: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt * The top of the /usr/share/doc/rxvt/etc/rxvt.terminfo file. * The "

Re: 64-bit setup: not a valid win32 application

2013-07-22 Thread Darik Horn
4-bit setup program from a mirror instead of the cygwin.com site. Try here: * http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe -- Darik Horn -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

bzr: Value "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" is not valid for "ssl.ca_certs"

2012-04-01 Thread Darik Horn
clone -Ossl.ca_certs=/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt lp:~foo/bar -- Darik Horn -- 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

Re: Cygwin Win-stall on 98, SSH to Mandrake won't run GUI

2003-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
The easiest solution is to install the rxvt package and use it instead of "Cygwin Bash Shell" in the start menu. You'll need to create a shortcut to rxvt. I use this as my shortcut target: C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -rv -geometry 80x40 -fn "Lucida Console" +sb -sl 1024 -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i