Re: How to check cygwin version?

2020-07-01 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jeffrey Walton via Cygwin wrote: > I think the documentation leaves a lot to be desired... I'm trying to > tell someone what version of Cygwin I am using. > > There's a FAQ item at > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version. It gives this > useless advice:

Re: Console doesn't work correctly under anything else than cmd or mintty

2020-05-13 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
I had a similar experience when I tried to use the CLI that comes with MongoDB. Switched to use TakeCommand instead when I needed to use the MongoDB CLI. Too bad! - Eric L On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:05 PM Kacper Michajlow via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was testing latest

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
, my suggestion is downgrade Cygwin itself and see if that helps (if not, we know the problem is elsewhere). All the other packages you can keep at latest versions. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:11 PM wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 22:22:56 +0200 > Eric Lilja wrote: > > >

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
You simply run the setup program, it's possible to select a few older versions. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:32 PM wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 18:01:59 +0200 > Eric Lilja wrote: > > > Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after > > out

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after output from Maven (which is colored) gets corrupted after a change in 3.1.0 and onwards. The output problem we saw manifests itself slightly different from yours, but it might be worth trying Cygwin 3.0.7 nonetheless. -

Re: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe Is that expected or is that an indication something? I also saw that. I downloaded my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.2-1 (x86_64)

2013-11-07 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2013-10-29 23:40, JonY wrote: The last 32bit 4.8.x build didn't go so well, will try again this weekend. Any news regarding 32-bit 4.8.x? Thanks for working on this! - EL -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2013-11-04 19:03, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.7.3-1

2013-07-02 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2013-07-02 12:26, JonY wrote: Version 4.7.3-1 of gcc has been uploaded. Some important notes are: * gcc-3.x is now finally removed, replaced by this version. * This means -mno-cygwin support is also removed completely, use the provided cross compilers to build Windows code. * Previous

Re: GCC and symlink are incompatibility on 64-bit windows

2013-06-11 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2013-06-11 04:31, Lu Sheng wrote: Are you sure you want to compile or run lxml from cygwin? no I want run lxml in windows, but the lxml only have linux library, I tried windows library, but the liblxml could not compile correctly in Visual studio I use lxml for Windows python a lot. You can

[ATTN boost maintainer] libboost-devel should not bring in python

2012-11-15 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, libboost-devel has a requirement on libboost-python, which, in turn, depends on python. That means if I want to install boost to use in my c++ program I'm getting Python as well. It's my hope that that requirement could be reveresed, i.e., libboost-python depends on libboost-devel, so I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

2011-11-23 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2011-11-21 16:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. [snip] - In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line, install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages. Is there some

Re: Remove cygwin

2011-10-18 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2011-10-18 14:11, Casual Trash wrote: I have received a computer with some software already installed and I have to clean it up. One of those software is cygwin, I tried to follow the instructions but without success. 1. I can't locate the cygrunsrv: there is no file with this name and

GCC 4.5 has been released, what does this mean for cygwin?

2010-05-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, GCC 4.5 has been released. I think I recall Mr Dave Korn saying that he would skip releasing GCC 4.4 for Cygwin and instead focus on getting fixes in for GCC 4.5. I'm just curious to where things stand now. Dave? Btw, I'm very much grateful for

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Lilja
to check it out (it's a commercial app, however), see http://jpsoft.com/ Also, I see that the just released beta of MySQL Workbench has a proper command interpreter now, another option you might be interested in. - Eric Lilja -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or the Cygwin

Possible permissions problem

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Lilja
I wanted to go through the tutorial for the Alignment API (http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial/tutorial1/index.html), so I downloaded alignapi-3.6.zip (http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=117) and unpacked it using a combination of WinRAR and Directory Opus. I am logged in as a domain

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

2009-10-01 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just uploaded an updated GCC-4 package to cygwin.com. It will be arriving at your favourite mirror next time it synchronizes itself with the official Cygwin repository. [snip] Hi Dave and thanks for all your hard work

Re: last update is weird

2009-06-09 Thread Eric Lilja
Vincent R. wrote: Hi, I have started cygwin-1.7 setup to update to latest cygwin dll and now when I start mintty, seems are very weird. My terminal looks like a mix between a windows terminal and mintty, for instance I have the following text in black and white : I just did an upgrade too

Re: R: C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Lilja
Marco Atzeri wrote: try LDFLAGS = -Wl,--enable-auto-import -o $(EXEC) Yes, that did fix it, thank you very much. I should have tried it myself and I apologise for not doing so. The reason why I didn't, is that the other programs I tried earlier worked even if I ignored this warning and

Re: R: C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Lilja
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 24 09:38, Eric Lilja wrote: cp Makefile Makefile3 then I opened it with my native windows emacs and it only says: file exists but cannot be read. So I checked the permissions on it with ls -l: $ ls -l Makefile3 -- 1 mindcooler None 299 Apr 24 09:32

Re: C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Lilja
delayed. Anyway, thanks for your help, Dave, and let me also thank you so much for your work on gcc! And there are alot more people deserving thanks as well on this list! It's been very exiciting following cygwin these past few months! - Eric Lilja -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: Yes, it does. :) But you knew that already since you have already replied? :) Or maybe something happened when you posted and one got delayed. Nah, ISHFRTTBIDRIGSIT! I should have..., I give up, and so does google! Care to enlighten me? :) - Eric

Re: C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: Yes, it does. :) But you knew that already since you have already replied? :) Or maybe something happened when you posted and one got delayed. Nah, ISHFRTTBIDRIGSIT! I should have..., I give up, and so does google

C++ program produces no output (g++ 4.3.2, cygwin 1.7)

2009-04-23 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, attached is the source for a C++ program (with a Makefile) that produces no output when run (I tried redirecting stdout, that didn't work either). I'm running Cygwin 1.7 on a Vista32 machine, Cygwin was just updated. The code was written september 2007 and then it ran and displayed its

Message during linking

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, I have a small utility written in C++ that I made for cygwin 1.5.x and g++ 3.4.4 a few years ago. I just tried to build it under the latest test release of cygwin 1.7 with the latest test release of g++ 4.3.2. First it didn't compile due to a missing include but I remember that one of the

Re: Message during linking

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Kai Tietz wrote: Hello Eric, Hello Kai and thanks for your swift reply! Here's the very simple Makefile that was used: CXX = g++ CXXFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra -std=c++98 -pedantic -Werror -c LDFLAGS = -s -o $(EXEC) Add to your LDFLAGS --enable-auto-import --enable-auto-import did nothing,

Re: Message during linking

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: It has started to happen now because libstdc++ is a DLL for the first time. We've fixed upstream ld to enable the feature by default and these warnings will disappear in the next binutils release. Ok, sounds great! And the benefits of a libstdc++ as a DLL is reduced code

Reliably check if we're running under cygwin inside Makefile

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I have a program that will built both under fedora and under cygwin. The program is written in C and the Makefile is slightly different between the two systems. Is it possible to check some environment variable in the makefile to determine what to do? The source code itself have

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Lilja
Christopher Faylor wrote: The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent

Re: terminal window with tabs?

2008-11-25 Thread Eric Lilja
and see what it can do for you: http://jpsoft.com/tccledes.htm - Eric Lilja -- 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/

Make program find its dll:s

2008-11-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I have a few programs that I've compiled using the gcc compiler supplied as part of the cygwin distribution. These programs depend on a few, fairly large DLL files. I'm now wondering if it's possible to tell a process launched from within a cygwin bash shell to look in this directory as

Re: Make program find its dll:s

2008-11-18 Thread Eric Lilja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:10:02PM +0100, Eric Lilja wrote: [...] I'm now wondering if it's possible to tell a process launched from within a cygwin bash shell to look in this directory as well for DLL files you might need

Re: Make program find its dll:s

2008-11-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Markus Hoenicka wrote: Although this is nothing specific to Cygwin: If you want to make the variable value available to processes which are executed subsequently, you need to export the variable, not just set it, as in: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dll-files Alternatively, set the

Permissions problem and cygcheck problem

2008-09-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I have cygwin installed on a brand new computer running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. One of the many things I use cygwin for is to compile a native Windows version of emacs (the trunk). I build it using two scripts: One that checks out and runs the configure script and the other one builds

Re: gettext latest vers. 0.17

2008-04-05 Thread Eric Lilja
Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] Sorry for this hijack but, Brian, is there in a fact a mail adress brian {at} dessent {dot} net and do you check it or are you simply ignoring the questions I mailed you? ;) - Eric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: gettext latest vers. 0.17

2008-04-05 Thread Eric Lilja
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:45:12AM +0200, Eric Lilja wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] Sorry for this hijack but, Brian, is there in a fact a mail adress brian {at} dessent {dot} net and do you check it or are you simply ignoring the questions I mailed you

Re: Help with GCC on Cygwin

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Lilja
Crap, I didn't notice the stupid CC. Oh well, I won't authorize it so gmane should trap it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Help with GCC on Cygwin

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Lilja
Balaji V. Iyer wrote: [snip] I'm used to building in a separate directory. Say I've unpacked the tarball in my home directory, I would do something like: $ mkdir gcc-build $ cd gcc-build $ ../gcc-4.0.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-4.0.2 --enable-languages=c (And a few more flags but I've

Re: Debugging question

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Lilja
Brian Dessent wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: Now I want to put a breakpoint somewhere and print some variables when that breakpoint is hit. Can I do that in this scenario? If so, how do I make gdb find emacs sources? Doing $ break /cygdrive/c/full/path/to/source/file:1337 doesn't work (No source

Debugging question

2008-02-11 Thread Eric Lilja
/full/path/to/source/file:1337 doesn't work (No source file named blah blah). If these questions, which basically is about gdb usage and mixing mingw compiled binaries with cygwin tools is considered off-topic, I sincerly apologise. - Eric Lilja -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Equivalent of recycle bin?

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several files. Many of

stackdumps during install on windows vista + other problems

2007-12-26 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I just installed Cygwin on my new laptop that is running Windows Vista Business edition. I've used cygwin for a few years but this is my first time ever using Windows Vista. I did my usual install (mostly developement related packages, no X), then I fired up bash to get the skeleton

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Lilja
Angelo, think about. Of course it's native windows program without any dependency on cygwin1.dll. It's supposed to be able to inspect your cygwin installation even when it's so hosed that you can't even launch a bash shell. Thus, it's a pure windows program and generates line breaks the way

Re: Almost nothing works for me in Cygwin 1.5.24-2

2007-12-09 Thread Eric Lilja
Rob Larkins wrote: [problem description snipped] Did you even look at the cygcheck.out you created? Some things in there look pretty obvious, like microsoft windows services for unix being in the path, shadowing cygwin related stuff... You really have alot of stuff in your path anyway, might

Re: Keyboard layout changed

2007-10-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 17 22:18, Eric Lilja wrote: Hi, I haven't used cygwin much the past month or so and I definetly haven't tampered with its setting, but when I launched it today I was surprised to find that my keyboard layout had changed from swedish to american. It had only

Keyboard layout changed

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, I haven't used cygwin much the past month or so and I definetly haven't tampered with its setting, but when I launched it today I was surprised to find that my keyboard layout had changed from swedish to american. It had only changed in bash not in any other program. I'm running an

Re: Using cygwin bash shell with NT Emacs, path is not setup perfectly

2007-08-26 Thread Eric Lilja
Ken Brown wrote: On 8/25/2007 8:30 PM, Eric Lilja wrote: Ok, it seems that /etc/profile is not read when I start cygwin bash using M-x shell and I think that may be a problem. I can't find the earlier message(s) in this thread, so I'm not sure of the context. But you might be able to solve

Re: Using cygwin bash shell with NT Emacs, path is not setup perfectly

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja wrote: [snip] Ok, it seems that /etc/profile is not read when I start cygwin bash using M-x shell and I think that may be a problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin

2007-08-13 Thread Eric Lilja
All, I have been using Ponderosa for a while, but something is not 100% with thier terminal emulation, when paging up/down in editors (nano/pico etc) there are artifact characters left on some lines.. I know this if off topic, but has anyone else seen this? and if they have a fix .. :) I

Re: gcc 3.2.2

2007-07-21 Thread Eric Lilja
syam prasad wrote: Hi, I am facing with lot of issues with gcc 3.4.4 regarding .dll build. Where can i downlaod gcc 3.2.2 . I serached in all mirrop sites, but failed to find it. Please help me. Regards, syam. Syam, I think you're asking the wrong question. Why not ask about help solving

Re: default Makefile path

2007-06-23 Thread Eric Lilja
mostlyharmless wrote: When using make under cygwin (which I am using for the first time) I have to use the -f Makefile option otherwise it says: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. do I have to set some environment variable so that I can just type 'make'? If I have a

Re: Segmentation fault with winmm library

2007-06-19 Thread Eric Lilja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when trying to run the following program, which uses the windows winmm library: --- #include stdio.h #include windows.h int main(void) { // a library call to make sure winmm gets loaded TIMECAPS tc ; timeGetDevCaps (tc, sizeof (TIMECAPS)); printf(hello

Slightly off-topic, but...

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when compiling otherwise I get errors for non-trivial programs. Anyway,

Re: g++ doesn't work

2007-05-02 Thread Eric Lilja
Hugh McMaster wrote: Hi Darrell, On 02/05/07, Darrell Blake wrote: I try and compile it via g++ test.cpp -o test but the file test.exe doesn't get created and the compiler doesn't output any messages. You have the command syntax around the wrong way. It should be: g++ -o test.exe test.cpp

Re: g++ doesn't work

2007-05-02 Thread Eric Lilja
/07, Hugh McMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric, On 02/05/07, Eric Lilja wrote: The command syntax used in the OP works just fine Yes, you are correct. That command syntax works fine, but appears a little untidy. Darrell needs to post the ouput of cygcheck -svr in an *attached* text file

Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-25 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello! I'm developing a simple IRC bot using the cygwin tools. It actually comes with a GUI and I'm writing it using Win32. I don't compile it with -mno-cygwin, because it's using cygwin sockets and pthreads. When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is spawned that

Re: Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-25 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: On 25 April 2007 15:20, Eric Lilja wrote: When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is spawned that handles communication with the irc server. Any messages are displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is thrown. Will there be any

Re: C++ name with leading underscore character not Compiling

2007-04-16 Thread Eric Lilja
Chelton Evans skrev: Thanks for the language correction. However the compiler is braking. Here is some of the code and the error messages reported in compilation. I have tested this on two different computers and the same error messages were reported. When I changed the _N to N or something

Re: tab completion and symlink

2007-04-16 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Lilja on 4/15/2007 11:48 AM: Is there a way to make completion add the trailing / so I don't have to type it? I usually want to enter a subdirectory to coding and not just coding. echo 'set mark-symlinked

tab completion and symlink

2007-04-15 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, in my home directory I have symlink to a directory named coding that lives in /cygdrive/c When I do: $ cd $ cd codtab cod is expanded to coding, and not coding/ Is there a way to make completion add the trailing / so I don't have to type it? I usually want to enter a subdirectory to

Re: Status of hstrerror() and h_errno in cygwin and one more important question

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: On 09 April 2007 22:35, Eric Lilja wrote: I'm developing a very simple IRC bot (written in C++) with a gui using the cygwin tools. Also, and more importantly, I'm having a weird core dump in my application. The program is very simple, when launched you can connect to an irc

Re: Status of hstrerror() and h_errno in cygwin and one more important question

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Lilja
Brian Dessent wrote: Eric Lilja wrote: I'm developing a very simple IRC bot (written in C++) with a gui using the cygwin tools. I use Win32 for the gui and I use cygwin sockets and pthreads for communicating with the server. Anyway, I found h_errno/hstrerror() to be useful when dealing

Status of hstrerror() and h_errno in cygwin and one more important question

2007-04-09 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello! I'm developing a very simple IRC bot (written in C++) with a gui using the cygwin tools. I use Win32 for the gui and I use cygwin sockets and pthreads for communicating with the server. Anyway, I found h_errno/hstrerror() to be useful when dealing with gethostname() errors, but they

Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi! I made a program that adds something to my Path variable if it's not already there (the path to my self-compiled native windows emacs binary) and now something seems messed up because now I can't use, for example, ping.exe anymore. It still lives in c:\WINDOWS\system32, however. Here's

Re: Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja wrote: Hi! I made a program that adds something to my Path variable if it's not already there (the path to my self-compiled native windows emacs binary) and now something seems messed up because now I can't use, for example, ping.exe anymore. It still lives in c:\WINDOWS\system32

Re: Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn skrev: On 06 April 2007 12:55, Eric Lilja wrote: Here's my cycheck.out attached, anyone see anything funny? Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\cygwin\home\hivemind\mplayer c:\PHP

Re: Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja skrev: Dave Korn skrev: On 06 April 2007 12:55, Eric Lilja wrote: Here's my cycheck.out attached, anyone see anything funny? Path:C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\cygwin\home\hivemind\mplayer c:\PHP

Re: Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja skrev: Eric Lilja skrev: Dave Korn skrev: On 06 April 2007 12:55, Eric Lilja wrote: Here's my cycheck.out attached, anyone see anything funny? Path:C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\cygwin\home\hivemind\mplayer

Using mysql 5.1.16 beta client libraries on cygwin

2007-03-28 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi! As many of you may know, the binary distribution of MySQL for Windows only ships with MSVC++ libraries. They have no binary distribution for Cygwin. So what do you do if you want to develop c or c++ programs talking to a native Windows MySQL server using the cygwin tools? Well, you can

Re: Using mysql 5.1.16 beta client libraries on cygwin

2007-03-28 Thread Eric Lilja
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:54:05PM +0200, Eric Lilja wrote: As many of you may know, the binary distribution of MySQL for Windows only ships with MSVC++ libraries. They have no binary distribution for Cygwin. So what do you do if you want to develop c or c++ programs

Bash still wants to beep during tab completion

2007-03-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I've changed my .inputrc to: # base-files version 3.7-1 # To pick up the latest recommended .inputrc content, # look in /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc # Modifying /etc/skel/.inputrc directly will prevent # setup from updating it. # The copy in your home directory (~/.inputrc) is

Re: Bash still wants to beep during tab completion

2007-03-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Blake skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Lilja on 3/19/2007 6:43 AM: Hello, I've changed my .inputrc to: # or, don't beep at me - show me set bell-style visible But bash still beeps (one time) if I do for example: $ cd $ cd tab -- Beeps here I

Re: email list

2007-03-17 Thread Eric Lilja
Web Developer skrev: Hello all, Can we not get this list to add [cygwin] to beginning of the email subject? All other lists do it i have; just annoying to look at cygwin list emails in gmail and trying to figure out where it came from without setting up email filter or clicking the email itself.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Corinna Vinschen skrev: On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: So, barring any catastrophic problems with the current released version of the Cygwin DLL, the last Cygwin version with support for non-Windows-NT class versions of Windows will be 1.5.24-2. And

Re: late bash CR/LF functionality change problem

2007-02-07 Thread Eric Lilja
peter.kielbasiewicz skrev: I recently updated to the latest bash rev. only to find that most of my scripts do not work anymore. I browsed through the FAQ and mailing lists and found many people having problems with the changed behaviour of treating \r literally. I do not want to argue what is

Permissions problem, maybe not cygwin-specific but still..

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello! I'm trying to learn html (and some other web technologies). I see that cygwin has an apache package but I'm actually using the native windows version. I edit files using native windows emacs (fresh checkout from cvs head, compiled myself), but I work from the command line, in a cygwin

Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Lilja
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I just thought that something which provides similar functionality to what is available now would be required. That means MinGW versions of gcc and binutils. As long as I'm able to compile w32api and mingw-runtime for MinGW from within Cygwin, I'll be a happy camper.

Re: Link windows DLL with Cygwin application?? Urgent!!

2007-01-11 Thread Eric Lilja
RJ wrote: Hi, I am quite new to Cygwin. I am trying to compile my linux application under Cygwin running on Win XP. I need to link my application to a third party DLL. I don't have the source codes for the DLL. How do i do it? Please help!! Regards, RJ LoadLibrary()/GetProcAddress()

Re: Problems with the new Cygwin-1.5.23-1

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Lilja
Corinna Vinschen skrev: On Dec 19 22:19, Eric Lilja wrote: Corinna Vinschen skrev: On Dec 19 20:19, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After installing Cygwin-1.5.23-1, I have tried to build Emacs-CVS. But the build fails as shown below. The failure DOES NOT happen using/reinstalling Cygwin-1.5.22-1

Re: Problems with the new Cygwin-1.5.23-1

2006-12-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Angelo Graziosi wrote: After installing Cygwin-1.5.23-1, I have tried to build Emacs-CVS. But the build fails as shown below. [snip] I can't reproduce this. I just did a fresh checkout of emacs and I have a fully updated cygwin (1.5.23-1, gcc-3.4.4-3 etc). [snip] - Eric -- Unsubscribe

Re: Problems with the new Cygwin-1.5.23-1

2006-12-19 Thread Eric Lilja
Corinna Vinschen skrev: On Dec 19 20:19, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After installing Cygwin-1.5.23-1, I have tried to build Emacs-CVS. But the build fails as shown below. The failure DOES NOT happen using/reinstalling Cygwin-1.5.22-1 (i.e. the prev). [...]

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.4.4-3

2006-12-18 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: A new release of gcc, version 3.4.4-3, has been uploaded to sourceware.org, and will appear on your local mirror after it next refreshes. Finally! Thank you, Dave! You know have a platinum star in my book! [snip] - Eric -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.9-9

2006-12-16 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.9-9, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.5-8 as current. [snip] 6 fixes the readline prompt display bug Which bug is that? [snip] - Eric -- Unsubscribe info:

Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello! By chance, I noticed that if I view bash's man page and then press 'q' to exit man, the prompt is colored more brightly than it is by default. If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A picture exhibiting this cosmetic glith can be viewed at

Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn skrev: On 14 December 2006 17:43, Eric Lilja wrote: Hello! By chance, I noticed that if I view bash's man page and then press 'q' to exit man, the prompt is colored more brightly than it is by default. If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A picture

Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn skrev: On 14 December 2006 18:26, Eric Lilja wrote: Dave Korn skrev: On 14 December 2006 17:43, Eric Lilja wrote: If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A picture exhibiting this cosmetic glith can be viewed at student.stunet.se/hivemind

Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn skrev: On 14 December 2006 18:48, Eric Lilja wrote: Well, the prompt that is displayed directly after man bash exits exhibits the hightlighted colors (only seems to happen for that particular man page). If I issue the command stty sane, or any other command, or simply press enter

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Eric Lilja
Philippe Conraux skrev: I have to build a large project on Windows. Build libraries using Intel compilers needs 12 hours on cygwin when same build needs 1 hour on Linux (same computer : dual boot, same compilers ifc 9.1) Equivalent build using Visual-Studio seems faster (not yet real

Re: Gnupg problem

2006-12-02 Thread Eric Lilja
David Barr skrev: I tried installing Gnupg 1.4.5-1 on a new system with the base Cygwin install and a couple other packages. When I tried to run gpg, it would exit without any output or any error message. I tried running strace on the program, and I got an error message about a missing

Re: isnan() causes segfault

2006-12-01 Thread Eric Lilja
Lev Bishop skrev: On 11/30/06, Lev Bishop wrote: snip Something for the newlib folks to deal with, I suppose. And they took my suggestion: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2006/msg00938.html Lev Thanks for debugging and reporting this to the newlib team, Mr Bishop! / E --

isnan() causes segfault

2006-11-30 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I'm working as a laborations assistant in a C++ course. The students are using Sun workstations and gcc (well, g++) version 3.4.6 to do the labs. I don't particularly like these workstations so I have cygwin installed on my laptop and I use it compile and test the student's programs.

Re: Bash process remains after I close rxvt in certain ways

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja skrev: Hello, I never open the default cygwin command window anymore. Instead I use rxvt (a program I was introduced to after using cygwin for more than a year and I immediately fell in love with it). In my quicklaunch bar I have the following rxvt shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe

Bash process remains after I close rxvt in certain ways

2006-11-12 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I never open the default cygwin command window anymore. Instead I use rxvt (a program I was introduced to after using cygwin for more than a year and I immediately fell in love with it). In my quicklaunch bar I have the following rxvt shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -tn

Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Lilja
or directory Obviously I can remove it by naming the file explicitly but I want to know why the lines I pasted above doesn't work so I learn something. :-) rm has not been aliased / Eric Lilja -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: SDL/OpenGL program fails to link when I want to use wgl-function

2006-10-23 Thread Eric Lilja
Eric Lilja wrote: Hello, I'm using a fully updated cygwin and mingw developement binaries of SDL (version 1.2.11). Consider the following program: //#include windows.h #include SDL.h #include GL/gl.h #include cassert static void display() { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glBegin

SDL/OpenGL program fails to link when I want to use wgl-function

2006-10-22 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I'm using a fully updated cygwin and mingw developement binaries of SDL (version 1.2.11). Consider the following program: //#include windows.h #include SDL.h #include GL/gl.h #include cassert static void display() { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glBegin(GL_POLYGON);

Problem with kill

2006-09-22 Thread Eric Lilja
$ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 2348 12348 2348 con 1005 12:08:25 /usr/bin/rxvt 361223483612 23920 1005 12:08:25 /usr/bin/bash 213636122136 27000 1005 12:17:43 /cygdrive/c/emacs/bin/emacs

Re: C++ program only compiles if -mno-cygwin specified

2006-07-15 Thread Eric Lilja
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:55:22PM +0200, Eric Lilja wrote: Hello, I'm using a fully updated cygwin and it seems that it puts macros named BIG_ENDIAN and LITTLE_ENDIAN into global scope if include stdio.h (or cstdio). If the program is compiled with -mno-cygwin

C++ program only compiles if -mno-cygwin specified

2006-07-14 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello, I'm using a fully updated cygwin and it seems that it puts macros named BIG_ENDIAN and LITTLE_ENDIAN into global scope if include stdio.h (or cstdio). If the program is compiled with -mno-cygwin, these macros are not present. This prevented me from compiling a third party library

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