X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Help on Windows-executable cygwin file/script Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:44:06 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <486CF082.1030009@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Francois Hill (Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:30:10 +0200) > I have looked up my problem but have not seemed to find an answer > anywhere, so there goes : > > Is there a way to make a Windows exectuable that would run a 'Cygwin > program' ? That is, automatically (and possibly silently) launch > Cygwin and make it execute a given script ?* > * It's not really clear what you want? Make a script executable? Executable in Windows? > This could be easily done if specifying a file to execute to > Cygwin.bat were possible : > C:\ProgramFiles\Cygwin\Cygwin.bat -f myScriptToExecute.sh > but I have not been able to find any reference addressing such a > possibility. You should put Cygwin into ProgramFiles. It's an environment, not an application. If you just want to run a shell script, then specify the interpreter. Cygwin.bat starts a interactive session. C:\cygwin\bash.exe myScriptToExecute.sh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/