You need to also install cygrunsrv so you can set cron up as a windows service, then run cron-config. If you want the cron jobs to send email of any output you’ll also need to install either exim or ssmtp (before running cron-config.) See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-*.README for more details. Regarding programs without a .exe extension, they … Read more
As a simplification, it’s like this: Compile something in Cygwin and you are compiling it for Cygwin. Compile something in MinGW and you are compiling it for Windows. About Cygwin Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix-based … Read more
The problem is that you do not have any of Certification Authority certificates installed on your system. And these certs cannot be installed with cygwin’s setup.exe. Update: Install Net/ca-certificates package in cygwin (thanks dirkjot) There are two solutions: Actually install root certificates. Curl guys extracted for you certificates from Mozilla. cacert.pem file is what you … Read more
First, turn off compression: git config –global core.compression 0 Next, let’s do a partial clone to truncate the amount of info coming down: git clone –depth 1 <repo_URI> When that works, go into the new directory and retrieve the rest of the clone: git fetch –unshallow or, alternately, git fetch –depth=2147483647 Now, do a regular … Read more
Expanding on the two previous answers, if you just want Objective-C but not any of the Cocoa frameworks, then gcc will work on any platform. You can use it through Cygwin or get MinGW. However, if you want the Cocoa frameworks, or at least a reasonable subset of them, then GNUStep and Cocotron are your … Read more
Edit 2018: Since my 2010-2012-2014 answer, in 2015 Git for Windows uses msys2, as I detail here. See more in “How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?“. Edit (2 more years later: October 2014) Johannes Schindelin just explained (Oct. 2014) that msysgit is phased out: We now have a light-weight Git for … Read more
Update September 2015 (6 years later) The last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3) now includes: By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it. See commit 69b301b … Read more
When all else fails in Cygwin… Try running the dos2unix command on the file in question. It might help when you see error messages like this: -bash: ‘\r’: command not found Windows style newline characters can cause issues in Cygwin. The dos2unix command modifies newline characters so they are Unix / Cygwin compatible. CAUTION: the … Read more
Without the need to install the grep variant pcregrep, you can do a multiline search with grep. $ grep -Pzo “(?s)^(\s*)\N*main.*?{.*?^\1}” *.c Explanation: -P activate perl-regexp for grep (a powerful extension of regular expressions) -z Treat the input as a set of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of … Read more
Unfortunately, the MinGW-w64 installer you used sometimes has this issue. I myself am not sure about why this happens (I think it has something to do with Sourceforge URL redirection or whatever that the installer currently can’t handle properly enough). Anyways, if you’re already planning on using MSYS2, there’s no need for that installer. Download … Read more