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 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:04:09 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash script ->exe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In that case, why not write a simple C program that simply does a system()? rlc On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: > Well, the need really originates from making a program called xmaxima > interface with a script maxima. xmaxima is a tcl program that is looking for > a maxima.exe but in clisp maxima there is only a maxima sh script that > xmaxima cannot evoke. I tried to make a .bat file that calls the bash script > but it does not work. > "Elfyn McBratney" wrote in message > news:019f01c2e96e$8b5f53f0$57f186d9@webdev... > > > 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/ > -- 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/