Questions tagged [cygwin]
Cygwin is a collection of GNU and other Unix-like FOSS tools which run on MS Windows and provide functionality similar to a GNU/Linux distribution while (mostly) conforming to POSIX specifications. Use this tag for questions about developing programs and/or scripts to run in this environment. Questions on the *use* of tools in a Cygwin environment are more appropriate for Super User (https://superuser.com).
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Recovering files deleted with cygwin on Windows 11
I'm using cygwyn on Windows 11 and ran an over-enthusiastic delete command.
cygwyn does maintain a '$RECYCLE.BIN' folder, and the files are there ... '$I0BEVIM.pdf' for example
Is there a cygwyn ...
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Rsync --compare-dest with remote directory giving errors
On local Win11 machine, I'm using rsync v3.3 through Cygwin v3.5.3 and on my remote ubuntu 22.04 machine, I'm using rsync v3.2.7.
I have a source directory in my local machine whilst compare and ...
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cygwin1.dll version 3.5.* failing on Windows 10 Enterprise. Need to revert to cygwin1.dll v3.4
Updating Cygwin on Windows 10 Enterprise generates errors for all applications dependent on cygwin1.dll versions 3.5.*.
During update errors appear:
"The code execution cannot proceed because ...
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winpty running using cygwin on windows server 2016 - segmentation fault
I followed the guideline from https://github.com/rprichard/winpty to install winpty using cygwin.
After I make and make install it, I copied all the files under /bin to the /cygdrive/d/cygwin64/bin/
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Cygwin shell behavior when running native executable
Since Windows is not a fully compliant POSIX system, there are significant challenges in implementing an efficient emulation of fork on Cygwin.
Cygwin still does a decent job of it but the performance ...
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How to install python to run with Cygwin in MobaXterm in Windows machine?
I have installed python in Windows and accessed python in Mobaxterm.
As seen below, the compiler is MSC on Win32.
Howerver, I want to use python in Mobaxterm in Windows machine with GCC compiler on ...
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Which .dll file do i choose for setting up luajit?
I'm trying to get LazyVim/NeoVim setup and I need to build with luajit, but I wasn't able to do the instructions:
Copy luajit.exe and lua51.dll (built in the src directory) to a
newly created ...
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what package to install to get #define of TIOCGPTN in MSYS2
title says it all, I hope... I don't know what header to look in and I don't know which package would give me that header... I don't know where to get my hands on the source code to do a full text ...
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open explorer to specific directory from git bash
When I execute this in Git bash windows on windows ten
foo_man@computer MINGW64 /c/www/root/images/
$ explorer /c/www/root/images/
It opens up explorer, but not to the directory c:\www\root\images.
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Why don't cygwin permissions simply inherit from parent folder in NTFS?
Whenever I create a new file (on NTFS) using a cygwin terminal session
the permissions do not inherit from the container, nor indeed do
they seem logical.
For instance in my windows Documents folder (...
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How to start cygwin with x11 support in Windows Terminal
I am using Cygwin in Windows Terminal by setting the command line option to D:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat. It works well but now I need to have X11 support so that I can use X11 forward in ssh command.
I ...
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man no longer works in Cygwin
I have cygwin version 3.4.10-1.x86_64 installed on my windows 7 machine. Until recently I could call man on any topic, e.g. $ man man; $man ls, etc. and the relevant man page would be displayed. I ...
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ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow / Cygwin
I'm trying to install Tensorflow on Cygwin but i'm getting these Errors :
$ /usr/bin/python3 -m pip install tensorflow==2.12.0
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow=...
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Getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django' while deploying Django on uWSGI server, while uWSGI server is running on Cygwin on Windows OS
I have installed Cygwin on Windows 10 and installed following packages
gcc-core (version 11.0.4-1, under Devel category )
gcc-g++ (version 11.0.4-1, under Devel category )
libintl-devel (version 0.22....
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C# Program to run rxvt command
I'm in a weird situation where I have a computer that only runs the commands I need if I run them through a special type of command window. I've found the shortcut to bring up that cygwin terminal is:...
