Quick note for Linux/macOS users finding this: Ensure the pwsh or powershell command is in PATH Use this interpreter directive: #!/usr/bin/env pwsh Ensure the script uses Unix-style line endings (\n, not \r\n) Thanks to briantist’s comments, I now understand that this isn’t directly supported for PowerShell versions earlier than 6.0 without compromises: …[in PowerShell Core … Read more
Right click on “My Computer” -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables Add a new environment variable, called CYGWIN_HOME and set its value to C:\cygwin Edit the PATH environment variable and add %CYGWIN_HOME%\bin to it (usually separated by a ‘;’). Just click okay, exit any command prompts or bash shells (over cygwin) you may have … Read more
The problem is that you do not have any of certificate authority (CA) certificates installed on your system. And these certificates cannot be installed with Cygwin’s setup.exe. Install Net/ca-certificates package in Cygwin (thanks dirkjot) There are two solutions: Actually install root certificates. The curl guys extracted the certificates from Mozilla for you. cacert.pem file is … Read more
You install it like this: 1 – Make sure lynx is installed 2 – Run lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg 3 – Run install apt-cyg /bin That’s it!
I think “APP_STL:=stlport_static” must be in Application.mk file. Create a “Application.mk” file and write “APP_STL:=stlport_static” in it.
Do an ls -al and you will see that your files do not belong to any group (none). Just do a chgrp Users * on your files, and you are fine again.
The way OP answered his own question is one way to go about it. The Windows Credential Store project was discontinued in 2015. Its original author suggests to use Git Credential Manager for Windows, maintained by Microsoft. Their installer is focused on Git for Windows, however the program itself works well with Cygwin, you just … Read more
There’s a built-in profiler called ELP. You can try something like M-x elp-instrument-package, enter “vc”, and then try finding a file. Afterwards, M-x elp-results will show you a profile report. (Note that if the time is instead being spent in non-vc-related functions, this technique will not show it, but you can instrument further packages if … Read more
Have you tried to use kill from inside gdb?
I’m betting the problem is that Cygwin is writing Unix line endings (LF) to the file, and you’re opening it with a program that expects Windows line-endings (CRLF). To determine if this is the case — and for a bit of a hackish workaround — try: echo “`date` User `whoami` started the script.”$’\r’ >> output.log … Read more