How to run nodist from Cygwin - node.js

After installing nodist I realized I could not use it from Cygwin. I can only use it from the windows cmd.
In the folder where it was installed I got among other files:
Nodist
--bin
|--nodist
|--npm
--node.exe
--cli.js
...
When trying to run it from Cygwin it fails, with error:
/../node.exe: No such file or directorybin/nodist: line 3: /myroute/Program Files (x86)/Nodist/bin
The content of /myroute/Program Files (x86)/Nodist/bin/nodist is:
#!/bin/sh
DIR="`dirname \"$0\"`"
"$DIR/../node.exe" "$DIR/../cli" $*
Note: The $PATH is set in both windows and Cygwin:
$ which nodist
/myroute/Program Files (x86)/Nodist/bin/nodist
Note2: It happens the same with npm, it works under cmd but not under Cygwin.

Simpler approuch:
Install the programs in a path without spaces and squares
eg, from:
/myroute/Program Files (x86)/Nodist/bin/nodist
to:
/myroute/Programs/Nodist/bin/nodist

They are working on it and it will probably solved in the next release:
https://github.com/marcelklehr/nodist/issues/137

Related

Installing Linux Library on Windows Using Mingw

I am attempting to install GTKExtra on windows. The package comes in a Tar.Gz and contains a Configure file. So its necessary to install the package using MinGw because the package is designed to be installed on Linux.
I have installed MinGW and MSYS. I have made sure that C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc\fstab contains the line C:\MinGW /mingw (plus an empty line below it).
My Problem: I still cant get windows run the Configure file. When I type in ./Configure into CMD I get the error '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
The steps I am taking are:
Open cmd.exe
Navigate to the folder that contains the configure file using cd C:/...
Type in ./configure (as per the instructions found in INSTALL. But this causes the error I described above
How can I run the configure file on windows? What have I done wrong?
You have to run the command in unix command prompt. For starting unix command prompt execute "msys.bat" in msys installation.

Cygwin compiler path

I have installed cygwin 64 bit, and have the path variable set up for its bin directory too. In command prompt "cygcheck -c cygwin" command also successfully displays
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.7.23-1 OK
But wen I start cygwin terminal it displays this
C:\PROGRA~2\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe: No such file or directory
Also netbeans (7.3) does not automatically detect this compiler. What can be the problem here?
The path for /usr/bin/ should already be set when you install cygwin, so by resetting it you may have actually removed the correct path.
You can see your path like this:
echo $PATH
I'd first try to remove your custom path statement, and if that doesn't work, you may have to uninstall and reinstall.

Composer & Cygwin

Composer doesn't run correctly in Cygwin if you try to install it "globally".
Putting composer.phar into /usr/local/bin/composer, then trying to run it will result in the error:
Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer
Just tripped over the same problem and found a solution. Posting it here, just in case I'll ever have to look it up again.
Set up a bin directory right under /home/my-username:
cd ~
mkdir bin
Move the composer.phar (or any other of those nifty new PHP imps that are on the rise)
into the ~/bindirectory and make sure to set it's execution bit:
# Notice how I got rid of the superfluous `.phar` extension
mv /path/to/composer.phar ~/bin/composer
chmod +x ~/bin/composer
Tell cygwin to include your ~/bin directory in the search path:
Open up the file ~/.bash_profile and uncomment the following paragraph ...
# Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "${HOME}/bin" ] ; then
PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
fi
Now, for the most important part:
A wrapper script that helps Win's native PHP resolve Unix style paths (which is causing
the problem after all as Windows doesn't know how to handle /cygdrive/... paths).
cd ~/bin
touch php
chmod +x php
After editing the wrapper script ~/bin/php should read:
#!/bin/bash
# e.g. php="/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/php/php.exe"
php="/path/to/php.exe"
for ((n=1; n <= $#; n++)); do
if [ -e "${!n}" ]; then
# Converts Unix style paths to Windows equivalents
path="$(cygpath --mixed ${!n} | xargs)"
case 1 in
$(( n == 1 )) )
set -- "$path" "${#:$(($n+1))}";;
$(( n < $# )) )
set -- "${#:1:$((n-1))}" "$path" ${#:$((n+1)):$#};;
*)
set -- "${#:1:$(($#-1))}" "$path";;
esac
fi
done
"$php" "$#"
Now restart your shell and it should correctly invoke the PHP interpreter whenever it
stumbles upon a #!/usr/bin/env php shebang. Simply issue a:
composer --help
How about this one?
In ~/.bashrc, add: alias composer='php c:\\your\\path\\to\\composer.phar'
Restart cygwin or reload the bashrc by running source ~/.bashrc
Works for me using both Cygwin's native php.exe and XAMPP's Windows-specific one.
I think what might work is to build a proxy instead:
Put composer.phar in /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
Create a bash proxy as /usr/local/bin/composer with the following:
#!/bin/sh
c:/path/to/php c:/path/to/composer.phar $#
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
Try this:
Install Cygwin PHP and use it to run composer in Cygwin.
You can choose one of two ways to work fine with PHP+Composer in Cygwin:
Install Cygwin PHP and install composer.phar in Cygwin.
Install Windows PHP and install Winodows Composer, then call then from Cygwin. (Windows XAMMP+Composer with alias in cmd)
Your problem is caused by that Cygwin Composer is ruining by Windows PHP on Cygwin, so it can not recognize the file path.
After install Cygwin PHP, the composer will integrates with Cygwin PHP then fit to Cygwin's filepath.
Cygwin PHP extensions for composer usage:
php
php-json
php-mbstring
php-phar
php-zip
php-posix
You can install other PHP extension when composer's package is needed such as php-xmlwriter, php-tokenizer, php-ctype.
Installation commands guide:
If you have already installed apt-cyg, there are installation command above:
apt-cyg install php php-json php-mbstring php-phar php-zip php-posix
apt-cyg install php-xmlwriter php-tokenizer php-ctype
Then install Composer via Cygwin PHP:
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
chmod +x ./composer.phar
mv ./composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
composer -v
Conclusion
I recommend using Windows PHP + Windows Composer, and call then in Cygwin, it because the Cygwin PHP is not much stable than Windows PHP.
I had the same problem. After reading the final instruction from composer installer, it says that the $PATH variable should be reloaded. I rebooted my computer and then linked the Composer bin to /usr/local/bin.
First locate the composer bin :
/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/ComposerSetup/bin/composer
Then according to Seldaek answer, after trying a non-working symlink, I did :
nano /usr/local/bin/composer
#!/bin/sh
/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/ComposerSetup/bin/composer $#
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
And it's working.
What I did (very simple):
Install Composer normally with the Windows installer
Open a Cygwin console an type composer you will see something like Could not open input file: /c/route/to/your/composer/installation/bin
Create an alias composer='composer.bat' on your bash profile or bashrc or whatever
Done
I'm running Windows 8.1
I was having this issue. Most of the responses were over my head but I fixed it with no problems.
Step 1) Reinstall Composer globally as per https://getcomposer.org/download/
Step 2) Leave it alone. All the special stuff you want to do, don't do that.
Step 3) Download the latest setup-xxx.exe from https://cygwin.com/
Step 4) Click it with your mouse.
NOTE: During step 5 you will feel a sudden urge to read instructions, browse the web for info and start checking little boxes on the menu. Don't do that.
Step 5) Click 'next' until it stops asking. It will look at your existing
settings, fix things up and add any missing dependencies.
This worked for me.
Getting composer to work globally inside Cygwin is a pain in the butt...
The solutions I have come up with:
Don't use it globally. If you are using the PHP CLI from a Windows installation, it won't recognize the Linux paths that Cygwin uses.
What I have done is put it in the base directory of all the projects I use composer with, and do ../composer.phar to run it.
It works fine this way, and it's almost globally available...
Download, and compile your own PHP binaries within Cygwin... Yea, kind of a overkill.
I solved the problem like this in a Cygwin/XAMPP setup:
Install composer.phar to XAMPP's php directory
Create an executable Bash script named composer in XAMPP's php directory:
#!/bin/bash
script_dir=$(cygpath -w $(dirname $0))
php "$script_dir/composer.phar" $#
It's important to use cygpath -w to convert the path to a path in Windows form.
Make sure XAMPP's php directory is accessible in Cygwin's $PATH:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/i/dev/server/xampp/php
Now it's possible to call composer from anywhere you like without problems:
$ composer -V
Composer version 264f433ca3f007d39568b3722b4bf418f58ba15b
I fixed it by adding a /usr/local/bin/composer file:
nano /usr/local/bin/composer
with the following content:
#!/bin/bash
/cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.3/php "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\composer"
Basically, you have to call PHP with a Windows style path, not a cygwin path.
The easiest way is to install composer using the Windows installer from their website and then copy the two files 'composer' and 'composer.phar' from "C:\ProgramData\Composer" into a directory which is in the PATH variable. E.g. you could copy the files into the /bin/ directory of cygwin. Afterwards you can again uninstall the "Windows version" of composer.
Update! This is what I did:
Install PHP and needed modules from the Cygwin Ports project
Download the latest composer snapshot
Rename 'composer.phar' to 'composer' and save it to /usr/local/bin
Open /bin/dash.exe and run '/usr/bin/rebaseall'
Also if 4. gives you an error, composer should run now
I suggest you use babun, it is based cygwin, but you can install package by pact, you can do this:
pact install php php-json php-phar
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
then enjoy yourself.
I was having trouble getting Composer to work in Cygwin and none of the solutions above were resolving my problem. Eventually I stumbled across this comment in the Composer github bugs discussion:
Yeah TBH using php from cygwin isn't a great idea, cygwin is just too different an environment. Too many hacks that create failures.. In any case closing here as there isn't much we can do I'm afraid :)
I don't know precisely where composer/Cygwin/php was tripping up, but, broadly, my problem was that I had two conflicting installations of PHP in environmental variables, one from an installation of WAMP, and another installed with Cygwin. The Cygwin PHP installation seemed to be struggling with some sort of path issue. I removed it, using only the WAMP PHP, and composer ran in Cygwin just fine.

Node.js Cygwin not supported

I am trying to install node.js. I followed this tutorial and i am stuck in the middle.
When I write ./configure in my cygwin terminal it says "cygwin not supported". Please help me out
Thanks in advance.
Node in my experience runs fine in cygwin, what Node usually has EINVAL errors in seems to be MINTTY which is a terminal emulation 'skin' that is default to cygwin. I still am not sure why these EINVAL errors happen 100% but the following are the steps and tricks I use to get node working.
In my /cygwin/home/{username}/.bashrc I add node to path so cygwin can find it
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/"
If you run a 32 bit version of node:
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/"
Then to make npm run without windows to linux issues I launch cygwin in admin mode then run:
dos2unix '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm'
At this point running files and most npm packages will run in MINTTY just fine, although every once and awhile you will run into EINVAL issues with certain npm packages as karma. Also you will not be able to run the interpreter directly in MINTTY, anytime I want to do these things I run:
cygstart /bin/bash
This will open a native cygwin bash.exe window, from here you run the interpreter or an any troubling package command that results in a EINVAL. It slightly sucks you have to do this but I rarely use this day to day, and I love MINTTY too much to not use it.
Also note that you can run any one line node code in MINTTY by just running something like:
node -e "console.log('hello node')"
As a simpler derivative of troy's answer for those just looking to install NPM packages:
Install Node.js with the Windows installer package.
Add it to the PATH with export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/" (obviously replacing the path to Node.js's installation directory with where you installed it).
There's a current bug in the Windows version that can be fixed by running mkdir -p ~/AppData/Roaming/npm. This is a bug for all of Windows and not just Cygwin. At some point of the future, you won't have to do this anymore, but the command shouldn't have any negative side effects.
Test it. Eg, npm install pretty-diff -g.
In order to be able to run the newly installed software, you'll need to add the install locations to your PATH. You can find these with npm bin -g and npm bin (the -g flag is the "global" installation location).
Not really anything special that you have to do to get it to run in Cygwin (although I can't say if everything works).
Use Console2, it allows you to run create tabs of CLI shells. It seems running cygwin inside console2 allows me to use node REPL just fine. I have no idea why :P
Follow this guide to add cygwin to console2:
http://blog.msbbc.co.uk/2009/11/configuring-console-2-and-bash-with.html
With Bjørn's suggestion (using Console2) and Soyuka's alias (steps here), my node.js v0.10.13 and npm v1.3.2 are now working under Babun v1.02, a Cygwin distribution.
For windows, Just run bash.exe in cmd, so that you could have a bash work around with cmd console directly, which could support ALL NODE WORKING PERFECTLY.
C:\Users\郷>bash
郷#CHIGIX ~
$ node
>
I'm using this wrapper in /usr/local/bin/node (note no extension!)
#!/bin/sh
_cmd="$(cygpath -lw -- "$1" )"
shift
"/proc/cygdrive/C/Program Files/nodejs/node.exe" "$_cmd" "$#"
This is far from perfect, as Node do not understand Cygwin directory tree, but works relatively well with relative names.
From Windows, run Cygwin.bat (instead of Cygwin Terminal) then in that run node: see and reply on this answer on this effectively-same question asked 1.5 years later.
Grab and run the node.js Windows installer.
In the Cygwin prompt type node
See if it works.

Node.JS - How to Run Node Command from any path?

I have installed the latest node.js from here . I see the %Path% variables have been set for Node.js. But, When i run node from C:\ , i get a "Node is not an recognized comman". But node command is working fine from "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs" path. Can i not run Node commands from C:\ or Say from an other path if i set the Env variables right? Please help. I am running a Win7 X64.
Thank You,
Faraaz
I had the exact same problem, but in my PATH variable I had: C:\Program Files\nodejs\.
After changing it to C:\Program Files\nodejs I could access it from anywhere.
What happens if you run node --version? I have never tried node.js from windows but if that doesn't work there is something wrong with your paths.
What do you get when you run echo %PATH%?
You should check if the path C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs is present in your %PATH. If not, add it via the system properties (persistent change). In any case, restart your command prompt, it'll reload the %PATH variable. If you're lucky, it should work now :)
Most likely it happens because there is no Node path in your PATH environment variable.
I see two ways to solve this
Just add Node path into the end of PATH.
Reinstall Node as administrator
run 7-zip (or some file manager) with administrator privileges >>
browse to node-installer.msi >> open it, install node >> enjoy
My Sublime was working with Nodejs fine. I could press Alt-R and see the output from Node in Sublime. Then at some point I upgraded Sublime. I now have version 2.02 build 2221
And at some later point I tried Alt-R and got this infamous message
'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command
But it had worked, so what changed?
The steps I took to fix it were to install git bash and then
$ git clone https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs.git
$ cd SublimeText-Nodejs/
$ git checkout 095ba03344
Back in Sublime I clicked Preferences > Browse Packages. This opened up Windows Explorer with the folder:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages
I replaced the contents of the Nodejs folder with the git version. Re-started Sublime and then Alt-R sprang back into life.
Other things that turned out to be irrelevant were changing the file Nodejs.sublime-settings and tampering with system environment variables. The only thing that worked was 095ba03344 as described here
https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs/pull/39

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