GNU Prolog compiles without a hitch

2009-11-19 Thread Terrence Brannon
Gnu Prolog (http://www.gprolog.org) compiles flawlessly on Cygwin. It is also ISO compliant. Clearly there is less activity, support and extra libraries for Gnu Prolog, but it is a solid product with fairly nice libraries and a dedicated development team. Would it be acceptable to create a Cygwi

Re: SWI Prolog will not fix their software for Cygwin

2009-11-19 Thread Terrence Brannon
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Terrence Brannon wrote: >> Subject: >> [Bug 429] term.h on Cygwin not existent. no warning during configure >> From: >> bugzilla-dae...@gollem.science.uva.nl > > term.h is provided by ncurses, and is locate

SWI Prolog will not fix their software for Cygwin

2009-11-16 Thread Terrence Brannon
Just FYI. --- Begin Message --- http://gollem.science.uva.nl/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=429 Jan Wielemaker changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW

5.8.0 fails to compile on cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Terrence Brannon
error was: pl-prims.c: In function `pl_collation_key2_va': pl-prims.c:3314: error: `__PL_ld' undeclared (first use in this function) pl-prims.c:3314: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once pl-prims.c:3314: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [pl-prims.o] Error 1

SWI Prolog version is 1 year old

2009-11-10 Thread Terrence Brannon
I would be willing to contribute an updated version of SWI Prolog. The current Cygwin version is 5.6.* but the stable release is 5.8.0. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

locale.h: No such file or directory

2008-06-20 Thread Terrence Brannon
I have libcharset and libiconv and libiconv2 installed, but for some reason locale.h cannot be found in my Cygwin distro. How do I get it installed? <501-- ~/prg/cpp/acpp --> cat small.cpp #include int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl; return 0; } <502-- ~/prg/cpp/acpp

cygwin and chmod - after calling mkgroup and mkpasswd, then what?

2006-04-13 Thread Terrence Brannon
my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files have been created, but the user "terrence" is not in them and so chmod is still not working: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ ls -l total 9 -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence Users 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence Users 396 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa.pub -rw-r--r-- 1 terre

output from shell call shows up in original cygwin window instead of current terminal

2006-04-09 Thread Terrence Brannon
After starting cygwin, I type startx& then I type xterm& in this xterm, I type ftp mirrors.kernel.org and then "anonymous" the Password prompt does not show up in the xterm window, but in the original cygwin shell. FTP works fine from plain DOS cmd.exe and from the original cygwin shell, bu

chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable

2006-03-24 Thread Terrence Brannon
Why won't chmod work even after setting CYGWIN properly? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ ls -l total 9 -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 396 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa.pub -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 733 Mar 13 12:29 known_hosts [EMAIL PROTEC

ConTeXt broken under Cygwin?

2004-09-08 Thread Terrence Brannon, Scheme Hacker
$ texexec --pdf hello.tex TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : hello output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeT

how do I convince MySQL AB to get MySQL to build out of the box on Cygwin?

2003-11-30 Thread Terrence Brannon
I filed a bug against mysql asking them to get mysql working under Cygwin. Their response, as you can see below is: Windows is natively supported platform. Why do you need to run MySQL under Cygwin? Could anyone please tell me some good reasons that might convince MySQL to get their product w

cygwin mysql 4.0.16 compilation : undefined reference to `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)'

2003-11-24 Thread Terrence Brannon
cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. Below is the transcript of my attempt to compile mysql under cygwin... it seems to be very close to working. g++ -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -o mysqld.exe sql_lex.o sql_handler.o item.o item_sum.o item_buff.o item_func.o item_c

setpriority() and PRIO_PROCESS under Cygwin

2003-10-11 Thread Terrence Brannon
I am trying to compile a free high-quality chess database, known as Scid: http://www.skjoldebrand.org/scid/ Here is the error I get ~/wares/scid-3.5a $ cat make.err In file included from src/game.h:24, from src/tkscid.h:20, from src/tkscid.cpp:16: src/textbuf

scid-3.5a: compilation failure on latest cygwin (`PRIO_PROCESS' undeclared)

2003-10-05 Thread Terrence Brannon
I have the latest cygwin (installed two days ago) and I installed all packages. make.err and make.out are attached. most salient information about the build is below. I hope this crosspost is not bad-form. command-line used: ./configure --prefix=/home/metaperl/install/Scid && make install >

HOMEPATH : not changed when /etc/passwd was changed

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
I changed my username in /etc/passwd from "Terrence Brannon" to "metaperl" And was elated when clicking on the cygwin start icon to login as metaperl. However, HOMEPATH is set to \Documents\Terrence Brannon and I cannot (a) unset HOMEPATH (b) export HOMEPATH=/home/metaperl

emacs -nw control-c mapped to control-g

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
When I open emacs via "emacs -nw" in a cygwin bash shell, it maps control-c to control-g for some reason... I looked through the archive and this fine gentlemen's post: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01647.html appears to have been ignored. Am I doomed to the same fate? Does

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
Robert Getter wrote: I have just recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin and latest XEmacs. Now, whenever I invoke a subprocess in XEmacs, all text in the XEmacs frame goes blank. I am using zsh as my shell, but the problem always occurs whether I am invoking a subshell, compiling, grepping, or run

Re: postgresql setup on cygwin --- initdb fails

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
Jason Tishler wrote: Terrence, On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:33:57AM -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed: Function not implemented Did you forget to start ipc-daemon2? No, I didn't forget to read it... I just didn't know wher

postgresql setup on cygwin --- initdb fails

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
; ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\Terrence Brannon\Application Data' COLUMNS = `80' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files' COMPUTERNAME = `MOKSHA' COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' CVS_R

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: setsid-0.0-3

2003-10-03 Thread Terrence Brannon
Basically it allows to call an application, say `sleep', like this: setsid sleep 10 `setsid' forks and detaches from the controlling terminal and so the inferior application will not be attached to the terminal as well. Or, to make it short, you can start an application as above and immediate

changing my cygwin username to have no spaces in it

2003-10-03 Thread Terrence Brannon
I just got a great new laptop --- the Toshiba P25 with a 17" widescreen. However, I was dumb enough to enter my name as "Terrence Brannon" during the initial welcome screens. Now when attempting to compile xemacs from scratch (because xemacs' windows goes into some sort of

mysql compilation: log.o(.text+0x3bf6):log.cc: undefined referenceto `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)'

2003-08-28 Thread Terrence Brannon
Hi, I am using the great and wonderful Cygwin (thank you for creating this!). I am trying to compile mysql under this version of cygwin: [unix shell]: uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 threnody 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin [unix shell]: and here is the error I get mkdir .