Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <019f01c2e96e$8b5f53f0$57f186d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" References: Subject: Re: bash script ->exe Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:40:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Is there a way to convert a bash (or sh or csh ) script into an windows .exe > file so it can be executed by a windows program or by clicking on it in > explorer? This isn't necessary if all you want is to be able to run the shell script from your desktop. You just need to create a shortcut that targets X:\Cygwin\bin\{bash,csh,sh}.exe -c /posix/path/to/script You may also wish to add some extra arguments to the shell for extra functionality. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/