msys vs cygwin
I have at least one cygwin shell open all the time, when on windows machine. Any msys users out there? Why would anyone use msys over cygwin (except for building win executables)? ...
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Seething over MSYS shell - is it replaceable?
I need a serviceable shell for MSYS. This is my current dilemma: The default rxvt.exe has a scroll bar and copy and paste, but doesn't send control characters or arrow keys to a running program in the shell (like interpreters/debuggers). This is a real thorn when using the Haskell interpreter ghci. The other shell sh.exe handles con...
How do you configure Msys's default size, color, and font?
I've been exploring use of MSys lately as an alternative, 'nix-like shell for my windows development. However, the default colors and size are driving me crazy. Anyone have any idea as to how I can change the default size, color, and / or font? Honestly, I'd be happy if I could make the default character width/height of the shell larg...
C# command-line arguments and ls
I'm using MSYS to get some semblance of a sane scriptable shell on Windows :). Now I'm writing a console application, written in C#, that accepts a number of arguments and presents those as options to the user in a dialog box. The actual options correspond to file names, that I'm retrieving with ls. However, trouble appears when I have...
Converting kernel image from ELF to PE
I am using Msys to build a home brew kernel that I wrote under Linux. Linux used ELF for its binary format and Msys uses PE. I have the source setup to allow it to be booted by Grub using the Multiboot spec. At the end of the build, I get some undefined symbols: init.o:init.S:(.text+0x14): undefined reference to `edata' main.o:main....
How to stop rxvt from spacing fonts miles apart?
I installed the latest release of MinGW/MSYS, and I like to use rxvt terminal over the boring windows command prompt. But this new build spaces the letters too much: most fonts I have tried are messed up - even Courier New (ttf), Consolas (ttf), or PC6X13 (fon). I'm stuck with plain OLD Courier because at least it's readable. Any solut...
mkdir missing from MSYS
Why do I get this in MSYS? user@lappy1 ~ $ mkdir test sh: mkdir: command not found Basic commands like cd and pwd work just fine. What happened to mkdir? ...
make install on MinGW/MSYS doesn't like --prefix=/mingw
I've begun using MinGW/MSYS in an attempt to use some Linux libraries on Windows. Using ./configure --prefix=/mingw make make install has worked well so far, but I've had two different libraries fail on 'make install', on an 'ln -s' call. It goes something like this: rm -f /mingw/lib/libvamp-sdk.so.2 ln -s libvamp-sdk.so.2.0.0 /min...
Sockets in MinGW
I was just trying to build netcat in MSYS using MinGW and realized that MinGW never really ported all of the BSD socket stuff to Windows (eg sys/socket.h). I know you can use Windows Sockets in MinGW, but why did they never make a Windows port of the BSD sockets? I noticed quite a few programs using #ifdef's to workaround the issue. I...
Extract debugging information from a msys/mingw gcc built dll using rebase.exe?
I'm trying to analyze a mini crash dump and need symbol files in order to get more details about the crash. Im currently just seeing: "034eff74 0086eee9 00000000 0089d58d 034eff94 app_integrator!ZNK14ACE_Data_Block4baseEv+0x6" Is it possible to extract debugging information from a msys/mingw gcc built dll into a windbg readable format ...
Where can I set path to make.exe on Windows?
When I try run "make" from cmd-console on Windows, it runs Turbo Delphi's make.exe but I need MSYS's make.exe. There is no mention about Turbo Delphi in %path% variable, maybe I can change it to MSYS in registry? Please, help. ...
Problem compiling freetype2 with MinGW/MSYS
There seems to be a problem compiling freetype2 with MinGW and MSYS My attempts on a clean copy of the freetype source, and an unadulterated MinGW and MSYS give: Andrew@MCARDLE-PC ~/documents/code $ cd freetype-2.3.11 Andrew@MCARDLE-PC ~/documents/code/freetype-2.3.11 $ ./configure FreeType build system -- automatic system detection ...
rxvt stuck when run interative command
OS: winxp, Terminal: msys/rxvt, Shell: bash The rxvt works fine generally, but when I run some interactive and in-the-terminal program such as vim or python shell, it just stuck. Any ideas about this? Thanks ...
C++ Netbeans debugging issues
hi all ,I installed netbeans6.7.1 ide for c/c++ also i have mingw/msys cygwin installed and i have given C:\Msys\bin as environment variable path.It has gdb7 version.However wheni run dbugging thru netbeans it prompts that GDB version 0 not supported on this platform.Pls help I have made the project from existing files by giving netbeans...
How do I setup Strawberry Perl in MSYS?
I have Strawberry Perl and have msys Perl 5.6 removed. Now perl will invoke Strawberry (due to PATH env) but how do I map the perl command in .pl or other Perl script file which have #!/bin/perl or #!/usr/bin/perl header? I was think to make a hardlink of perl.exe into msys/bin or merge the whole Strawberry inside msys directory, but I'...
error when execute autoconf in msys
I have strawberry perl installed and usable. while executing autoconf it show error: $ autoconf The system cannot find the path specified. autom4te-2.64: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4 I do have m4 in msys there and runable, what happening? my m4: $ /bin/m4 --version GNU M4 1.4.7 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Thi...
Costs and benefits of Linux-like Windows development environment
I'm taking an Introduction to C++ this semester, so I need to set up development environments in both my Windows and Ubuntu partitions (I switch between them). I was planning to use GCC in both environments for consistency and because I plan to do my serious C++ developing in Linux with GCC. It appears that installing MSYS and MinGW is...
Tab autocompletion in bash vi shell mode
When using MSYS on a windows platform, I "set -o vi" to use the vi shell mode. Tab autocompletion for files and directories stops working. How to I renable this while remaining in vi shell mode? ...
Why is configure so slow in MSYS?
When I use MSYS to compile something, the ./configure step can take longer than the make. However, the same process in Linux has a fast configure and slow make. Is this just some setting in MSYS that is bogging down my system? Does anyone have a solution? ...
ccvssh.exe is missing from msys and MinGW
Where can I find it? ...