cygwin

Installing PIL on Cygwin

I've been struggling all morning to get PIL installed on Cygwin. The errors I get are not consistent with common errors I find using Google. Perhaps a linux guru can see an obvious problem in this output: $ python setup.py install running install running build running build_py running build_ext building '_imaging' extension gcc -fno-str...

In cygwin, why is there a lingering file filename.zip in a directory after running rm filename.zip?

In cygwin in windows vista, I tried to remove a few zip files I created from the command line in cygwin. The rm finished without complaining, but there remains entries for these zip files in the directory, that cannot be opened or deleted, either in cygwin or vista. For example, ls -l shows the following after performing the rm: $ ls -...

How to compare two file structures in PHP?

I have a function which gives me the complete file structure upto n-level, function getDirectory($path = '.', $ignore = '') { $dirTree = array (); $dirTreeTemp = array (); $ignore[] = '.'; $ignore[] = '..'; $dh = @opendir($path); while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) { if (!in_array($file, $ignore))...

rsync doesn't sync files

Hi I'm using rsync(with Cygwin) to sync 2 local folder The folder contains binary files I'm using the following command rsync.exe -av dir1/ dir2/ but the files in dir2 where only partially update, there are few different files does anybody know of a problem with rsync on windows? should i use some other flags 10'xs ...

Starting Beyond Compare from the Command Line

I have Beyond Compare 3 installed at; "C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe" and Cygwin; "C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe" What I would like is to be able to use a command such as; diff <file1> <file2> into the Cygwin shell and to have the shell fork a process opening the two files in beyond compare. I looked at the Beyond Co...

g++ problem with -l option and PostgreSQL

Hi I've written simple program. Here a code: #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> #include <D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\include\libpq-fe.h> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { PGconn *conn; PGresult *res; int rec_count; int row; int col; cout << ...

Emacs : problem with tags file ?

I am using ctags to create tags for my Emacs to read symbols from, using cygwin. Emacs says "visit-tags-table-buffer: File /home/superman/tags is not a valid tags table" here are my options to find files and generate tags. $>find . -type f -regex '.*\.[hc]\|.*\.cpp' -print0 | xargs -0 ctags -e --extra=+q --fields=+fksaiS --c++-kinds...

Which cygwin package contains the rm command?

I installed a minimal version of cygwin, but i now need to install the rm command. Which cygwin package contains the rm command ? ...

unistd.h related problem when compiling bison & flex program under vc++

I'm using bison & flex (downloaded via cygwin) with vc++. When I compile the program I got an error: ...: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory The corresponding code in the flex-generated file is: #ifndef YY_NO_UNISTD_H /* Special case for "unistd.h", since it is non-ANSI. We include it w...

jsubmenu not getting focus after moving main panel displaying on cygwin

I have a java application running on RedHat Linux that uses swing components. To run the application, I do an ssh -Y from windows machine running cygwin to the RedHat Linux server and then run the application. My application has some menus on the main panel with each menu having submenus. If I don't move the main panel when the applica...

Emacs on Windows for C++ development configuration?

Has anyone set up cygwin and some emacs to work well under a 64-bit Windows 7? I tried downloading cygwin recently, and by default not even dired works reliably, there are odd shell prompt characters, I get a lot of warnings, in one case C-c was read as C-g and caused various errors. (Neither xemacs nor emacs worked for me, where by "w...

multicore application cygwin

If I run a parallized application (using f.e. OpenMP) on a windows multicore within cygwin - do I have the full multicore performance the windows machine is offering or is there a significant speed reduction to expect due to the cygwin layer? Any experiences? ...

Help with Cygwin bash file

Hi, I have a bash file, which I’m trying to run in Cygwin on a Windows 7 platform, but I gives me some odd errors when doing so. The bash file works on my Linux system. The bach file looks like this: for ((r=0; r <10; r++)) netcat localhost 4444 < myfile.file & done wait but I’m getting an error for my for-loop. More precise i...

cygwin does not contain mysql.h .. How can i get it in cygwin?

I need mysql.h for my c++ program. ...

What are the difference between Cygwin on windows and real UNIX environment

Hi, I am a C/C++ developer. I have never done C++ programming on UNIX, I have done only on windows. I want to practice C++ on Unix. (Because all big companies ask C++ with Unix). I have a laptop on which i do not want to install any other OS (because i have installed very important software on it and i don't have setups) So, I searched...

How to install new packages on Cygwin?

Hi all, I installed the latest version of Cygwin with a number of packages. I soon realised that I need more packages (such as wget, etc) and I coudln't find a way to install the new packages without running the set up again and reinstall everything from scratch. What I'm looking for is the equivalent of apt-get on Cygwin (if such a th...

Exporting a variable from a Windows batch file to Cygwin

I want to initialize my Cygwin environment with a variable coming from a batch file @set myvar=test %BASH% --login -c "set" REM hope to see myvar So I want myvar with its value eventually be available in bash. ...

Best way to make a script to SSH?

My university has quite a lot files (like past papers etc) which I need to be on the uni network to access them. I ssh, using port forwarding, into the network and set my browser (Firefox) to go through that port. I know it would be quite easy to write something in most languages that would enter the command into a terminal, but which la...

NetBeans IDE 6.8 not working nicely with cygwin 1.7.5.1

I'm trying to use NetBeans to compile C code and have the following versions from cygwin gcc 3.4.5 g++ 3.4.5 GNU Make 3.81 GNU gdb 6.8.0 Here are the messages from trying to compile the Welcome program /usr/bin/make -f nbproject/Makefile-Debug.mk SUBPROJECTS= .build-conf make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Milktrader/Docume...

Problems compiliing c++ code using cygwin

I am trying to compile some source code in cygwin (in windows 7) and get the following error when I run the make file g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -Wall -Wextra -Werror -g -O2 -MT libcommon_a Fcntl.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/libcommon_a-Fcntl.Tpo -c -o libcommon_a-Fcntl.o `test -f 'Fcntl.cpp' || echo './'`Fcntl.cpp Fcntl.cpp: In functi...