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Michał Fita<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>argv_minus_one</span></a></span> You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> is not usually that strongly supported.</p><p>Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> (and no, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cygwin</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msys</span></a> don't count).</p>
Yesterday's Rose<p>Almost forgot. <br>Yesterday I tried installing <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MSYS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSYS2</span></a>. I think I need to redo it later with better luck.</p><p>I don't know how else to phrase it, but once I tried running full update, the MSYS2 environment just *shat itself.* I must emphasise that I do not use this kind of expression lightly.<br>First it said the pacman database was funky. Then bash started whining about not being able to create processes.<br>*What.*<br>...I uninstalled the whole thing before things got even weirder.</p><p>Last time I tried using <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cygwin</span></a> was early 2000s. All I can remember about that experience was that it was mildly janky, and I heard that MinGW was coming to fix all that. ...I guess at this pace we'll never get rid of the jank.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a></p>
gugod<p><a href="https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/actions/runs/13100409688/job/36547979805" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/</span><span class="invisible">actions/runs/13100409688/job/36547979805</span></a></p><p>Any cygwin users ?</p><p>I'm trying to run perlbrew tests on cygwin on GitHub Action. Most of the setup worked but it ended up with this error of missing `crypt.h` when installing dependencies. Module::Build::Tiny in this case, but perhaps there will be more.</p><p>If you know how this can be resolved or avoided, please help!</p><p><a href="https://g0v.social/tags/perlbrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perlbrew</span></a> <br><a href="https://g0v.social/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perl</span></a><br><a href="https://g0v.social/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a></p>
Luke T. Shumaker<p>One positive thing about having been forced to use Windows many years ago is that I got exposed to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cygwin</span></a>, and the glory that is multi-line PS1 values (the default Cygwin PS1 was something along the lines of &#39;\u@\h:\w\n\$ &#39;).</p><p>That &#39;\n&#39; in there makes such a difference! Separate the long info line from where you&#39;re typing!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gnu</span></a></p>
Stewart X Addison<p>I wouldn&#39;t have thought that <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>security</span></a> would make it quite so easy to bypass an access issue ... Can&#39;t rename a file with the windows commands, but doing it with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cygwin</span></a>&#39;s mv succeeds ...</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dheadshot" class="u-url mention">@<span>dheadshot</span></a></span></p><p>Pretty sure I haven&#39;t used <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PuTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PuTTY</span></a> once since 2013, but that&#39;s just because I&#39;ve been on MacOSX and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> the whole time, and the few times I had to use windows, I just used <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cygwin</span></a>.</p><p>Not enough love, Cygwin. It&#39;s like reverse-WINE. (Of course, it does help that Windows has a (probably badly implemented and somewhat cursed) POSIX layer.)</p>
Julius Kaiser<p>Windows isn't that bad.. you can run Cygwin on it.. and SimCity2000! 😉 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/screenshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>screenshot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minimalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ssh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ssh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Slatian<p>Anyone out there still using Cygwin?</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/cygwin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/windows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a></p>
Habr<p>Стилистический Анализатор: Синхронизация порядка объявлений и определений функций</p><p>У нас в организации есть обязательное правило оформления исходников, которое звучит так: Порядок объявления С-функций должен совпадать с порядком определения С-функций. В этом тексте представлен алгоритм работы консольной программы, которая автоматически выявляет нарушения этого странного правила.</p><p><a href="https://habr.com/ru/articles/844436/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">habr.com/ru/articles/844436/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://zhub.link/tags/ctags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ctags</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awk</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gawk</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/sed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sed</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/cmp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cmp</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcc</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>статический_анализ</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>стилистический_анализ</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/static_analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>static_analysis</span></a></p>
lmemsm<p>Another useful <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writing</span></a> tool I almost forget to mention is wc. You&#39;ll find it on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BSD</span></a> distros. On Windows, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/msys" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>msys</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cygwin</span></a> offer a version. There are several implementations of wc out there including versions in Busybox and Toybox. If you want to build it yourself or modify it, sbase has a straight forward version:<br /><a href="https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc.c.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc</span><span class="invisible">.c.html</span></a><br />Have a happy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedomDay2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoftwareFreedomDay2024</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SFD</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedomDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoftwareFreedomDay</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DFF</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FLOSS</span></a></p>
Habr<p>Техникум: Как Проинициализировать Микроконтроллер [часть 2]</p><p>Программа это реализация алгоритма. А алгоритм это упорядоченная последовательность действий. Поэтому очень большое значение имеет правильный порядок исполнения программы. В этом тексте я написал как автоматически выявить правильную последовательность инициализации</p><p><a href="https://habr.com/ru/articles/830964/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">habr.com/ru/articles/830964/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://zhub.link/tags/init" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>init</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/graphviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphviz</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/tsort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tsort</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/sort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sort</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>компиляторы</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/uniq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uniq</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/GNU_make" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNU_make</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/dot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dot</span></a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/cpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpp</span></a></p>
Mark Crocker<p>Weird <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/FishShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FishShell</span></a> bug... The <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/OhMyFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OhMyFish</span></a> extension, argu, will complain that the `expr` command does not exist on start-up when used on <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/CygWin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CygWin</span></a>. </p><p>Solution: add the absolute path `/bin/expr` to the argu.fish script, and it will work fine. 😒</p>
Chewie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Codeberg</span></a></span> does <a href="https://mammut.gogreenit.net/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a> count? I think they run their own git server.</p>
Evan 🫠 🔙 MAGFest 🦔💨🥏<p><a href="https://gamedev.lgbt/tags/dcrdao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dcrdao</span></a> seems to be the best answer for this task, however it does not have direct access to the hardware if run in <a href="https://gamedev.lgbt/tags/WSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WSL</span></a>, and it is not successfully building in <a href="https://gamedev.lgbt/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cygwin</span></a>.</p><p>So far these are the flags I’m trying to build with:<br>CXXFLAGS="-std=c++14 -Wno-narrowing -include strings.h -DSTRING_LITERAL=\"(const char*)\""</p><p>Any pointers or boosts would be _greatly_ appreciated</p>
:gnu:Hacker<p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a> está bien para software antiguo o que nunca tuvo intención de tener una versión para <a href="https://masto.es/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a>. Software que pretende ser multiplataforma debería descartar Wine y utilizar la API nativa que además tiene mejor soporte en Windows del que Wine (puede) ofrece(r) en GNU gracias a <a href="https://masto.es/tags/MinGW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MinGW</span></a> y <a href="https://masto.es/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cygwin</span></a>.</p>
Ein Philosophiker<p>I wanted to run git on <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/WSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WSL</span></a> instead of <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a>. Guess what - it's from @Microsoft. It works a little bit, but... no thanks.</p>
Jari Pennanen<p>What is this, Cygwin and JQ doesn't play well together:</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cygwin</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/wsl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wsl</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/jq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jq</span></a></p>
jhx<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSYS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MSYS</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cygwin</span></a> are really useful when one is running <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows</span></a> :windows8: <br />Of course, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WSL</span></a> helps to.<br />I just personally like the integration of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cygwin</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSYS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MSYS</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.msys2.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">msys2.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.cygwin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">cygwin.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
niu tech<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mefi.social/@rodneylives" class="u-url mention">@<span>rodneylives</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wetdry.world/@jame" class="u-url mention">@<span>jame</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@scruss" class="u-url mention">@<span>scruss</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@suetanvil" class="u-url mention">@<span>suetanvil</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dillo" class="u-url mention">@<span>dillo</span></a></span> I&#39;ve built <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Dillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dillo</span></a> 3.1.0 on Windows 11 using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cygwin</span></a> without problems and it takes only 5MB of RAM on startup, but requires X Window Server.</p>
mid_kid<p>People don&#39;t believe me when I tell them I had to re-learn how to use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>windows</span></a> (as a user) for my last and current job. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cygwin</span></a> and derivatives (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>git</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bash</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/msys2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>msys2</span></a>) serve as my only coping mechanism, really glad they exist.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gnu</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
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