getting cancelsynchronous IO error when starting mintty.exe from Windows XP desktop shortcut

2016-07-27 Thread prabhakar gupta
Hi there, I had some problem during my installation of cygwin. I have pasted the contents of log below: After getting the "installation cocmpleted" message I double clicked on the MINTTY.EXE shortcut and go the following error: "The procedure entry point cancelsynchronousio could

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.2

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.4.2 with the following changes: * Revert change (#123) that spoiled wide character display (#570). * Changed bell to make sound by default (like xterm) (#568). The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker. -- Thomas -- Problem

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 27.07.2016 11:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Btw, since you're apparently building your own Cygwin DLL I thought just sending the patch for testing is sufficient. If you prefer to get a developer snapshot with this patch, I can do that, too. Just say the word. The patch looks good and in ma

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.3

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 10:58, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/27/2016 8:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > > Hi everyone else, > > > > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.3. > > > > Supposed to fix the problems reported in > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Kaz, On Jul 27 08:40, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 27.07.2016 07:35, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > On 27.07.2016 07:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > > The patch below seems to solves it for me: > > > > Oops, no it doesn't. Stay tuned. :) > > This is a bit more like it: > > From: Kaz Kylheku > Date: Wed, 27 J

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.3

2016-07-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2016-07-27 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > Hi everyone else, > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.3. > > Supposed to fix the problems reported in > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00306.html and > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwi

RE: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-27 Thread Secure Hell
Peter, I got your list offline but my emails directly to you bounce back. Looks like Comcast has your domain on a badlist. Thanks nonetheless! -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Secure Hell Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:12 AM T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] scite 3.6.6-1

2016-07-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * scite-3.6.6-1 * scintilla-win32-3.6.6-1 SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. Thi

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 27.07.2016 07:35, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On 27.07.2016 07:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote: The patch below seems to solves it for me: Oops, no it doesn't. Stay tuned. :) This is a bit more like it: From: Kaz Kylheku Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:49:54 -0700 Subject: Replace bogus resize-window-to-clear-s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] perl-Win32-GUI 1.13-1

2016-07-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * perl-Win32-GUI-1.13-1 Win32::GUI is a Win32-platform native graphical user interface toolkit for perl. Basically, it's an XS implementation of most of the functions found in user32.dll and gdi32.dll, with an object oriented

[ANNOUNCEMENT] abiword 3.0.1-6

2016-07-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * abiword-3.0.1-6 * abiword-plugins-3.0.1-6 * libabiword3.0-3.0.1-6 * libabiword3.0-devel-3.0.1-6 * girepository-Abi3.0-3.0.1-6 AbiWord is a powerful, free and cross platform word processing program similar to Microsoft Word.

Can a .sh script stored in c:\scripts\ (Windows part of filesystem) be run from crontab?

2016-07-27 Thread Peder Sverdrup
Hi, I have my own backupscript, lets call it "bup.sh". It is stored on the c-drive, in the directory c:\scripts\. When I open the cygwin terminal I can run the script manually. But if I include it in my crontab, it does not run. If I copy the script to /home/myuser/myscripts/ I can run it from th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] harfbuzz 1.2.7-1

2016-07-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * harfbuzz-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz0-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz-gobject0-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz-icu0-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz-devel-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz-gobject-devel-1.2.7-1 * libharfbuzz-icu-devel-1.2.7-1 * girepository-HarfBuzz0.0-1.2.7

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.3

2016-07-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/27/2016 8:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, Hi everyone else, I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.3. Supposed to fix the problems reported in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00306.html This is now fixed. Here's another problem, with a

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 27.07.2016 07:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote: The patch below seems to solves it for me: Oops, no it doesn't. Stay tuned. :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

[PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
The patch below seems to solves it for me: Cygwin should not be faking a scroll of the console by shrinking it and then restoring its size. Though clever, this is evidently unreliable; cmd.exe misbehaves if the console handle is hit with rapid SetConsoleScreenBufferSize calls. From

Re: Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 26.07.2016 22:19, Kaz Kylheku wrote: The test program featured below works fine under the Cygwin console window. If executed from a cmd.exe console, strange things happen with the cmd.exe window. Suddenly, the window spontaneously resizes so that is taller than the desktop. A horizontal scrol

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.3

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, Hi everyone else, I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.3. Supposed to fix the problems reported in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00306.html and https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00308.html. ===

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.2

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 10:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 26 22:48, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > > > > On 2016-07-26 16:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > > > Hi everyone else, > > > > > > > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.2. > > > > > > Supp

Re: problem building with cmake under cygwin (need clang)

2016-07-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 27/07/2016 09:51, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: Csaba was clear but it seems you are misunderstanding, the call to cmake is cmake [options] No, not but For quickhull, CMakeLists.txt is in the root of the project, the sources are under

Re: problem building with cmake under cygwin (need clang)

2016-07-27 Thread Csaba Ráduly
On 16-07-26 06:52 PM, LMH wrote: Thanks you for the clarification. I implemented your steps, $ ls src/ CMakeLists.txt include README.md src test $ mkdir build $ cd build/ $ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang ../src Stop doing that---^^ CMakeLists.txt is in the r

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.2

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 26 22:48, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > > On 2016-07-26 16:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > > Hi everyone else, > > > > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.2. > > > > Supposed to fix the problems reported in > > https://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: problem building with cmake under cygwin (need clang)

2016-07-27 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Csaba was clear but it seems you are misunderstanding, > the call to cmake is > >cmake [options] No, not but For quickhull, CMakeLists.txt is in the root of the project, the sources are under the src directory. Regardless of wh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-07-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of octave-bsltl1.0.2-1 octave-generate_html0.1.12-1 octave-io 2.4.2-1 are available in the Cygwin distribution: ADVISE On cygwin none of the forge packages is autoloaded, as some package could change substantially the normal octave behaviour (eg "nan")

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdal-2.1.1-1

2016-07-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 2.1.1-1 of gdal libgdal-devel libgdal20 perl-gdal python-gdal have been uploaded for cygwin. The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open