I highly recommend GOW - Gnu On Windows - as a lightweight alternative to Cygwin:
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki It provides wget / curl which makes Leiningen happy - along with about a hundred common *nix commands, without the overhead of Cygwin. Sean On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Eric MacAdie <emaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > OT: It looks like Gnuwin32 has not been updated in a while. > > When I use a Windows machine, I always install cygwin: http://cygwin.com/ > > You can install emacs from that. > > I feel like attaching a pic with the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man meme: > I don't always use Windows. But when I do, I install Cygwin. > > - Eric MacAdie > > > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Gregory Graham <gsg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm a Clojure newbie, and during Christmas break I decided to learn >> Clojure, and installed it on my Mac, using Emacs, Nrepl, and Leiningen 2. >> When I got back to work, I put the same setup on my Windows 7 machine, and >> the only issue was the lack of wget. So, I installed Gnuwin32, and >> everything works fine. I was already using git for version control, so that >> wasn't a problem. >> >> I will say that I had used Emacs several times in my career when working >> in a Unix environment, but did not like it on Windows. However, when I tried >> Emacs 24 on Windows a couple of weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised, and >> it has now become my main editor at home and at work. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> >> > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
