Re: cygwins' emacs does not work in multi-language environment (mule)

method problem. What version emacs? There's a new "experimental" emacs for cygwin out. It would be helpfull to here "how it doesn't work" .. For example do you get gibberish characters on your screen for a given (which) language, etc. Regards, wynfield Arie

clamav 0.91

Just a note that clamav has a new version out 0.91, which may be a significant change over 0.90.3 which we have now, if increasing the from 90 to 91, rather than the more minor number. Anyway since the new version is out... freshclam gives the following notice: "WARNING: Your ClamAV installati

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

downloaded and it runs beautifully. Many should be able to sleep bettter at night thanks to your work. With both careful, downloading and with clamscan a pretty clean machine can be maintained.. Wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

links

I never noticed .lnk externsion files in my /cygwin directories, but now I seem to have a lot. Also there are the links that show up with the permission flags and pointer -> as shown below. I think either a) a test version of setup caused it and it is wrong or b) it is intentional and alrig

Re: links

Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 31 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I never noticed .lnk externsion files in my /cygwin directories, but now I > > seem to have a lot. Also there are the links that show up with the > > permission flags and pointer -> as shown below. > >

Re: Audio coding/encoding conversions

Thanks Victor and Dave, for the information regarding ffmpeg, both about the future of it for cygwin and how to get by for now. Regards, Wynfield Victor Paesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Dave Korn writes: > > > > On 13 December

typesetting

had tetex (maybe still does), but, TeTeX could not process Asian languages, and TeTex itself has been discontinued. Thanks, Wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: where is pdflatex gone?

Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... can the tetex packages be fixed, so that they supply a pdflatex link? My understanding is that support for tetex has been stopped and that in its place texlive is available.. "TeX live is a TeX distribution which is advised as the replacement of its

libtools

How is the conversion of libtools coming along. I download libtool1.5 1.5.23c-1 and libltdl3 1.5.23c-1 some time ago, and just ran setup to get the new "which" program and it wants to revert me to 1.5.23a. I understand that 1.5.23c was experimental... I just want to ask if i

Perl and File Locking

Re: Perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) Cygwin: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.25(0.270/5/3 In Perl (I am attempting to open a file and put an exclusive lock on it to update it like this: ### use Fcntl qw( O_RDWR O_CREAT O_NONBLOCK O_EXLOCK );

mysql package

I jsut installed the mysql pacakge and tried to start the daemon. I got the follow error listing. It is late now and I plan to continue on the morrow, but if anyone can point out why the daemon wont start up, it would be very helpful. Thanks --- 130926 23:25:40 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is

GSL Package, Incomplete

Re: NU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. Can the gsl package maintainer or someone knowledgeable about it for cygwin tell me if the package is complete or is gsl-config missing or inappropriate for cygwin? I am getting an: error: Could not find gsl-c

fonts for X11 and TexLive

Is there some X11 or other utiltiy that can display a list of available fonts to 1.) X11 and if different fonta available and 2.) TexLive's Context macro processor? Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Bind server

I just installed BIND 9.9.3-P2 (Extended Support Version) using 32-bit setup-x86.exe. I ran /usr/sbin/named-config and then cygrunsrv -S named. Bind's named server fails. It goes get started, but immediately dies. The Events Log shows the following: -

Re: Bind server

Mark, thank you for the knowledgable information you provided. I am just in the learning phase and now realize how much more I need to dig into the subject to learn more. Cheers Mark Geisert wrote: > wynfield writes: > > Looking in /etc there is no named.conf file. Is this an

Audio Related

I want to add audio output volume control to an application. But, I don't know how to go about it yet. If you know anything about controlling volume from within cygwin applications or have done so, I would appreciate your telling me about it. Regards -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: Audio Related

Yes, waveOutSetVolume is in mmsystem.h as well as you mentioned. Thanks for the helpful information. Regards George M. Florendo wrote: > On 11/16/13, wynfield at gmail dot com wrote: > > I want to add audio output volume control to an application. But, I > > don't kno

PHP Cygwin Package

I have uncommented out the line;extension=php_mysqli.dll in /etc/php5/php.ini I attemp to run a pdp script which attempts to connect to mysql server, but get the following error message: :PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_connect() I could find no dlls assoiated with t

Re: PHP Cygwin Package

Thanks for the respose. I found out that the php module for Apache's httpd is an optional module and not installed with the apache package. It must be installed individually. Then the httpd2 server's configuration file must be modified to let it know to use the php module. Much appreciation

Re: PHP Cygwin Package

ule. Much appreciation to the cygport site for producing and making available the apache2 mod_php, which can be installed with Cygwin's setup program. Regards. George M. Florendo wrote: > On 11/27/13, wynfield wrote: > > > > I have uncommented out the line;extension=php_mysqli.

Cygwin's PHP & MySQL

I am attempting to learn php programming together with interfacing it to an MySQL server from an http web-page. I ran into a fatal error. The httpd2 server logs shows the following message: "PHP Fatal error: Class 'mysqli' not found" The phpinfo() function has no mention of the mysqli exten

Re: Cygwin's PHP & MySQL

Balaji Venkataraman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:25 AM, wynfield wrote: > > I am attempting to learn php programming together with interfacing it to an > > MySQL server from an http web-page. I ran into a fatal error. > > > > The httpd2 server logs shows the f

Re: Cygwin's PHP & MySQL

Andrey Repin wrote: > > wgc> I am attempting to learn php programming together with interfacing it to > wgc> an MySQL server from an http web-page. > > Why you are doing it with Cygwin? There's a native MySQL server, native PHP > and native Apache server, that works together very well. You mi

Re: Cygwin's PHP & MySQL

I meant for this to go to the list so that others can find the cygwin ports site which has ported many useful and needed packages to cygwin, which are not in the main base distribution. This is where I found the php_MySQLi extension. This interface to MySQL is an improved version of the older

Apache Install Error

I am getting what I think is an error message that is safely ignorable, but wish to report it. Only my recent Cygwin update I received the following error from post install processing. "Package: Unknown package apache2-mod_perl.sh exit code 127" -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

compiling and linking mechanics

With the current set of gcc and loader, does there still exist the diffence that makes porting GNU Linux programs a challenge sometimes. I haven't build for a while, but I recall that the order of libraries in a ? linking process on the command line wouldn't work as they do in on GNU Linux sys

Re: compiling and linking mechanics

Thanks for summing up the exact problem and solution. I apprecaite it. Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:51:05PM +0900, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: > >With the current set of gcc and loader, does there still exist the > >diffence that makes porting GNU Linux programs a challeng

Re: compiling and linking mechanics

Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > > It isn't incredibly difficult to understand: Some poorly written makefiles > put a -lib before the object files which rely on them. That works by > coincidence in Linux but doesn't work on Windows. So put the -libraries > last. > -- What is the basis for t

Re: compiling and linking mechanics

That's good to know. Thank you and Christopher for the information marco atzeri wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, wrote: > > > > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >> > > > > > > It isn't incredibly difficult to understand: Some poorly written > > > makefiles > > > put a -lib befo

PHP error

While checking to see what verions of php I had I ran php --version and received the following warning regarding mysqli: $ php --version PHP Warning: Module 'mysqli' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Module 'mysqli' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 PHP 5.4.19 (cli)

Re: PHP error

Andrey Thanks for replying. You were right. I found the problem and fixed it. Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, wynfield! > > > > While checking to see what verions of php I had I ran php --version and > > received the following warning regarding mysqli: &g

glib and gtk+

ote also that the x'd box [x] is in the "binary" column" , but the description specifies "sources". Thanks for any input to get this corrected. Wynfield -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: how to install libtoolize

Re: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 02/05/2009, Wynfield Henman wrote: > > Though I am building a different package, I have the same problem as > > mentioned below. The libtool package downloaded is 46 bytes > > (effectively null) and get stashed into the _obsolete

jasper package

I like to experiment with imagemagick, so I build it on my own for those personal reasons. I've not used any jpeg-2000 functionality and thought to try it out, so I used setup and downloaded the cygwin jasper package for this. However "configure" with imagemagick does not find "jasper.h" Lo

jasper package (jpeg-2000)

I can not find the jasper development package with setup.exe which should contain the c header files, etc. I could only find what appears to be the jasper 1.) utility programs and 2.) the runtime library i.e., jasper-1.900.1-1.tar.bz2 and libjasper1-1.900.1-1.tar.bz2 Can someone please

Re: R: jasper package (jpeg-2000)

Marco, thanks for the direct url to the official package repository. That enabled me to build imagemagick with jpeg-2000. Until yesterday, the libjasper-devel package did not show in my setup.exe's library or graphics category list. Perhaps is was a propagation error to mirror sites or som

Re: about X

/startx" changed to the below: defaultserverargs="-clipboard -multiwindow" Regards, Wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: File by file encryption instead of filesystem encryption

Re: Kelly Jones wrote: > Are there any cygwin/Windows programs that will encrypt a file, but > leave it usable, similar to what TrueCrypt does for filesystems? > . It might be safest to use GnuPG, the Gnu Privacy Guard. For you case using one of its Symmetric ciphers to encypt the file sh

Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon

or from within an x window more simply: (from an X-shell !) $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs & regards, wynfield -- Ken Brown wrote: >> > And, to head off the next question, I think the > ancient-but-still-current version of emacs-X11 needs libXaw7 > (http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Running Zsh under Cygwin

gelati, Regarding: > Before I spam the list with the errors I get from running Zsh, I'd like to > know if Zsh or alternative shells are officially supported by the Cygwin > distribution. That is, is Zsh (or tcsh) supposed to be as functional as Bash > under Cygwin? Or is Zsh sim ply include

fork: child died

s, but would like to clarify it and see if any workarounds exist for now, till it can be properly fixed in the core cygwin dll (if that's the problem)? Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Wynfield past of failure msgs follows: ./A01grammar

cygwin 1.7 & cdrtools package

and it does support blue-ray disks as well, though to what exten I'm not sure yet, but would like to find out. regards, Wynfield p.s. the new 2009-06-13 also fixed my building zsh problem. some clips of the errors follow: exa

Re: The C locale

Though I'm not an up on the details involved here, I will give you feedback to the request for information about the locale issue, because it affects the quick accessability and usage of Japanese language documents. Either of the two follow values would be acceptable, but I feel that the UTF-8

Re: setup for 1.7 fails with Japanese characters in download

owing type of message: No such file or directory: C:\japanese_dirname日本語名/http%3./release-2/..bzip_filename Although I think comments regarding "setup" may need to be sent to some setup mailing list?? Regards, Wynfield Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: > . > First post,

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

The patch would probably solve the same problem for displayging Japanese characters. regards Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 15 12:29, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: > > when i set the LANG to en_US.UTF-8, the `cygpath -D' could not display > > the Chines character correctly. > > > > In other

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

I have no problem with Japanese-Kana or Chinese-Kanji characters related with cygpath. Some jibberish directory or file names might exist from legacy mis-encodings or non-recogizable character sets, but this would not be a cygpath issue. > On Nov 30 09:14, ??? wrote: > > The proble

gettext latest vers. 0.17

Just as the person below noted that the latest version of gettext, 0.17 was needed, I found myself also needing it. I expect that more and more newer versions and updates will be requiring it. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00220.html The current cygwin gettext package is over two yea

Re: gettext latest vers. 0.17

Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My question is the usage of "cygport" really required to be used. I > > certainly > Of course it's not required. The maintainer can use any method he > wants. The fact that Chuck switched *to* cygport from the previous

Re: gettext latest vers. 0.17

Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:56:15PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >Build gettext yourself if you want a newer version. This is FOSS, > >you're not helpless. > > TIFYNH. I like it. > > cgf Chris, you must not have been fully coherent when you wro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-6.8-1 (also includes GUI "insight" debugger)

Great, I appreciate your efforts. This will be very helpful to us all. -- Re: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've made a new version of the gdb debugger available for installation. > This version is a refresh from the 6.8 branch of the CVS repository on > sourceware.org.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-6.8-1

You're right, I couldn't find dgb-6.9.1 either. Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps there is a problem with mirrors and/or setup.ini: the mirrors > have the tarball but setup.ini does not contains references to > gdb-6.8-1. > > Cheers, >Angelo. > -- Unsubscribe info:

gdb 6.8.1

It was in some mirrros, for example: http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sourceware.org/cygwin/release/gdb/ File: gdb-6.8-1-src.tar.bz2 12638 KB4/5/20082:10:00 AM File: gdb-6.8-1.tar.bz2 4419 KB 4/5/20082:10:00 AM so it must the the ini file. -- Unsu

expat library problem

/man/man1/ usr/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz end usr/bin/xmlwf.exe does get installed... But, I don't see the libraries.. Is this a packaging error? regards, wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

expat-2.0.1-2 "library"

The "expat" lib (expat in the "lib" category in setup) does not get loaded when expat is selected. In fact no libary files get loaded. Why put it in the lib section if its not a library? Apparently, other files are the real library: libexpat1 is the expat 2.0.1-1 library, but it is not li

expat-2.0.1-2 "library"

Query... The "expat" lib (expat in the "lib" category in setup) does not get loaded when expat is selected. In fact no libary files get loaded. Why put it in the lib section if its not a library? Apparently, other files are the real library: libexpat1 is the expat 2.0.1-1 library, but it

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

You might also try 7-Zip. You can download it from: http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats. I use this and in my shell resource file I have aliased it to "7z" in instead of putting the directory

cv view (son of xv?)

I am trying to install the "CV" package. "CV is supposed to work similar to the venerable XV image viewer, just faster." http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/CV.html It depends on the following packages. which I have no trouble making and installing. - ExtUtils-Depends-0.300.tar.gz - G

Re: cv view (son of xv?)

I apologize if only my appended cygcheck output file was sent. The mail was in response to Brian's request below: > Please post your cygcheck output as requested in > . and related to my trying to install the "CV" package. http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/CV.html

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually look for a searched for package. But, I suspect that, this isn't the list to write about setup.exe I believe it has its own list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

gtk2

I'm working to install a perl package&application. *** can not find package gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 *** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PATH It requies a gtk+-2 (library). I already have: gtk+: gtk+-1.2.10-2.tar.bz2 gtk+-devel

Re: gtk2

I have "usr/bin/cyggtk-x11-2.0-0.dll" - /usr/bin/cyggtk-1-2-0.dll and - /usr/bin/cyggtk-x11-2.0-0.dll The Do you think the naming convention be a problem? Could that be the problem-- here is the script in the Makefile.pl file: %pkgcfg_gtk, %pkgcfg_pango); unless (eval { %pkgcfg_gtk =

jpeg library

I was trying to build a program which uses libjpeg. ./configure works, but make beaks down. # The issue is: program io-jpeg .c tries to access an undefined structure member. According to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01005.html This member was deliberately taken out of cygwin's li

Re: Fetchmail as NT Service

What does your "/var/log/fetchmail.log" say? Probably a permission problem. regards Diogo Branco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have Cygwin Install on a Machine with Windows 2003 Server 64bit, i > have fetchmail install too but i whant fetchmail to be running has a > service on the l

ImageMagick

Manually, I donwloaded "ImageMagick-6.4.3" and compiled it. It used to run fine. But, now I can not convert any files to jpg?!?# I built jasper with ./configure --disable-libjpeg so no problem should've occured there. the config.log shows that libjpeg is found and o.k. I would like to h

Re: TexLive Binaries?

unicode, it can be used for many languages, include Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Thanks, Wynfield Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > > Are there any plans to port the TeXLive 2007 to cygwin? The tetex 3.x > > are quite

ImageMagick

Did some more experimenting and Imagemagick fails (dies ) when trying to convert a jpg file or a png file to jpg or jp2 format , however a jpg to png works well. jasper built with or without configuring with "--disable-libjpeg", also died in a segment faut. Any ideas of what if the problem?

Re: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

Jay, rather than making silly pedantic and empty arguments I'd rather that you contributed to making things better. That is if you were truely up to it capable. regards Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snipped the drivel ... > The code seems very wierd in places. > I don't "like" it

New cygwin dll crashes zsh

With the latest distribution of cygwin, zsh faults with the following message. child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap deltochar.dll to same address as parent (00C1) - try running rebaseall zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable Bash continues to run fine, as far as

Re: New cygwin dll crashes zsh

P.S. Rebaseall does not help. I've tried that. > > > With the latest distribution of cygwin, zsh faults with the following message. > > > child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap deltochar.dll to same address as > parent (00C1) - try running rebaseall > zsh: fork failed: resource tem

iconv problem

Either there is a bug in cygwin's "iconv" utility or it's library, or what I am trying is not possible, but it should be possible. I ran iconv as shown below: $ iconv -f SJIS -t ISO-2022-JP --byte-subst="<0x%x>" /tmp/td.sjis >/tmp/td.txt iconv: /tmp/td.sjis:12:2: cannot convert ... What happe

Re: Shell script loop runs out of memory

I will not address the memory management problem, if there is one here. I am addressing your method of determing a difference. No offense, but it seems extremely inefficient, and the larger the file you are computnig the md5sum on the more inefficient. Why not use the file system's "modified"

Re: Hello! I can't get to c:\Program Files using c:\Program/ Files\ any suggestions?

Thorsten, don't use Microsoft Windows style of pathnames! Use POSIX compliant pathnames. E.g. Do the following $ cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files or alternatively try $ cd "`cygpath -u "C:\Program Files"`" Note the backslash is to escape the space in the pathname in the 1st case, quotes in the

Re: ImageMagick 6.4.0.6-2 does not work out-of-the-box on a fresh Cygwin install: Possible package dependency issue?

Intertesting I had no trouble with ImageMagick 6.6.2-1, which is newer of course. It built with no trouble out of the tarball downloaded from Imagemagick source. I built it and amd using it now on CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) Did you mean something else about "out-of-the-box"? regards Will

Re: Mail program

Re: Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > even w/ mailutils, you'il probably need a sendmail which is provided > by ssmtp or msmtp... No,a seperately loaded sendmail would not be necessary D. Henman has told me that, the Gnu mailutils suite should have everything needed. It has a "sendmail" daemon, a "mai

Language interface template request

I want to write a small assembly language routine to do some heavy bit slogging and interface it to a C language program. Does anybody have any templates to show how this should be done. Stack control & variable definitions for linking. Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

gs crashing

system and gv not in tune with it? Regards, wynfield -- 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: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

I have installed and use 'texlive 2010', as is, on cygwin with no problem. No need for MikTeX or Windows interfaces. Using TexLive also eases things since it uses normal posix pathnames. Regards, Wynfield -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: displaying Chinese radicals

a Cinese box as far as I know, especially know that the characters have been so simplified (mutilated in my opinion). Wynfield Lingyis wrote: > > cygwin xterm or rxvt does a good job when it comes to displaying Chinese > characters, but it doesn't have fonts for all the Chinese radical

Re: $USER is not resolved in paths sometimes

I agree with Achim. Don't use Microsoft Windows paths. Cygwin has a function called cygpath which is very handy to use to convert paths and use in zsh and other shell scripts In zsh, using zsh syntax, I use it like this: Convert the first argument to a micrsoft window format pathname winpat

Re: $USER is not resolved in paths sometimes

Sorry, I copied all examples with the -w option which is wrong for converting into a unix like pathname. To convert to a unix pathname use the option -u to convert to a windows pathname use -w Run: cygpath --help for more detals. and to get the output in the sell use $(...) or

Emacs MS W32

I'd like to know more about the Microsoft W32 o.s. runnable emacs that's being offered. My objective is to have an emacs that I can carry around in a memory stick and be able to use emacs, even on Microsoft W32 o.s. running systems. I'd put the emacs and my personal emacs customization files

Re: Emacs MS W32

Thanks Achim, I'm sorry I expressed myself poorly, but fortunately you understood and gave me the answer I wanted. The explanation that it's still cygwin based, but with a MS Windows direct interface gave cleared it up for me. Thank you. Achim Gratz wrote: > . ... snipped > > Emacs-w32 is

Setup in infinite tight loop using 100% cpu resource

setup hangs in a tight loop when I try the following command from a cygwin console: $ $c/cygwin-packages/setup -q -n -D -K http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.sig -l C:\cygwin-packages -R C:\cygwin -s http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/cygwin -P openssh Starting cygwin install, version 2.774 User has NO backu

Re: Setup in infinite tight loop using 100% cpu resource

Thanks Achim and Larry for your responses and pointing out that setup.exe should be ran in a ms-windows console. But, another point I was making, is that in my opinion, setup.exe should not get into an infinite loop goobling up to 100% cpu usage, that setup.exe is out of control and indicate

Re: Setup in infinite tight loop using 100% cpu resource

Would using the 'run' command do this so one would not have to start up an instance of a cdm window? Example: $ Run $c/cygwin-packages/setup -q -n -D -K http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.sig -l C:\cygwin-packages -R C:\cygwin -s http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/cygwin -P openssh I'm assuming that s

X11 capturing DISPLAY value

I wanted to capture the X11 DISPLAY value that shows on the console when 'startx &' in invoked and successful. I've tried: startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY\= >/tmp/xwin.txt & startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY >/tmp/xwin.txt & but neither worked. I could check files in /tmp/.X11-unix/* for date, owner,

evince pdf viewer

I wanted to try the file view 'evince', so downloaed it from cygport. Installed it. Ran it and got the error message that, cyggtk-3-0.dll was missing I installed gtk-3+ something and ran it again and got the error message:t /usr/bin/evince.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygevview3

direct interface to win32 api for char output

This will be done in assembly language and I'd prefer not to have to resort to directly using windows or bios interrupts. I would like build a very tiny program and I want to skip linking the c library to this little program. Doing so would bloat it up to about 225times larger than it would b

But it is cygwin related.

It is a cygwin related question to me. It involves using cygwin and programs built using cygwin. You are wrong to suggest that it doesn't related to cygwin. Additionally it involves using cygwin as a learning and buiding tool. You should consider a more constructive response that would be h

Regardless it is cygwin related

I did not ask for native widows programming advice any more than cygwin uses win32-api. cygwin distributes the header files and I simply asked about linking, which is exactly what cygwin built programs do. I appreciate Corinna's providing a url to a possible point of source and which did resp

Re: But it is cygwin related.

No Earnie. It wasn't about programming. Read and try to comprehend. cygwin seems to have a missing api in it or one it should have is missing. The cygwin.dll or possibly another cygwin dll shuffles i/o betwwen cygwin programs and MSWindows is not open to linkage (or is it) by assembly language

Re: But it is cygwin related.

Another great idea. I'll give it go. Thank you. Eliot Moss wrote: > It sounds as if what you need to know is the calling > convention for gcc on the x86. Maybe the easiest > thing is simply to write and compile some C programs > and then use gdb to disassemble them (or request > assembly code o

It does involve cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > >On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > snipped > If you have to enter MinGW land to perform what the OP wants then that > is a really clear indication that this is off-topic. That is illogical, just b

It does involve cygwin (last message hopefully)

Comments inlined. Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > >On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > snipped > If you have to enter MinGW land to perform what the OP wants then that > is a really clear indication that this is off-topic. That i

ffmpeg

HOW CAN CYGWIN capture W32 Programs WinSTD out as minty and putty do? I am use several programs that are native windows compiled, such as ffmpeg. I am writing a sheel script to get video clip information provided by ffmpeg, but I can't capture the screen output which (probably isn't stdout to cy

Building a new package help

I am trying to build an movgrab, a command line application which can fetch video streams in various formats. It was written for linux systems. But, will almost build on cygwin. The first problem i had was it needed to have /usr/include/sys/file.h included in a couple of files. The last

Re: Building a new package help

Larry, thanks. Your advice, was on the spot and got me closer to making a succsessful build. The other problem I found was that on cygwin, an additional header file called "zconf.h" is required and has to be included along with the zlib.h file. It builds now. Thanks for your assistance.

Re: Building a new package help

Larry, thanks. Your advice, was on the spot and got me closer to making a succsessful build. The other problem I found was that on cygwin, an additional header file called "zconf.h" is required and has to be included along with the zlib.h file. It builds now. Thanks for your assistance.

Re: offline cygwin install question

Ask Microsoft if Microsoft XP 32 bit code will run on Microsoft 64 bit systems. Should work. But, not a good idea. Why not, be smart and download the cygwin setup.exe and packages specifically built for 64-bit systems and then transer it over to your non-connected 64 bit machine with a flas

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

I do not have the problem using emacs built on cygwin either. > On 6/26/2013 2:53 PM, g wrote: > > > > > > > > Daniel Barclay fgm.com> writes: > > > >> > >> Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates > >> files with a simple name of "NUL"? > >> > >> Thanks, > >>

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