Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Matthew,

FYI, I've been able to associate the following with the .pl extension (in
Explorer) and have it work:

c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c '"`/bin/cygpath -u "%1"`"'

There was no need for extra batch files or anything else.  The above also
worked when the path contained spaces, but I haven't tested it
extensively.

As for the apache problem, try adding "." to the PATH (e.g., use

c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 'PATH="$PATH:." "`/bin/cygpath -u "%1"`"'

or something like that - again, beware of spaces).  You might also want to
pass the -x flag to bash...
	Igor

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:

> Just based on what I have learned so far...I figure
> out a more geniune way of how this works:
> in cygwin, I made a shell script quo that goes like:
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> # this program takes user input (STDIN) and put a
> quote around it...
> # why do I have to do this? well, I can't figure out a
> way in dos batch that would do the same...since using
> echo autometically adds a "\n" at the end...
> printf "\"";
> while read LINE
> do
>   printf "$LINE";
> done
> printf "\"";
>
> and I wrote something called "bashwin.bat" that goes
> like:
>
> @echo off
> REM this program is used so that executable in cygwin
> written in shell or perl or whatever, can be executed
> in Windows command
> REM just associate this file in explorer with whatever
> you want to run (e.g. .pl, .sh)
> cygpath -u %1 | bash -c "quo" > tmp
> bash --loging < tmp
> del tmp
>
> so now, at command prompt, I can type printenv.pl or
> test.sh and they will execute....as if they were in
> cygwin, with POSIX path of course...
>
> the problem is, they still won't work as cgi script...
> I got a 500 error (or 500 somthing..) and apache
> error.log (apache 2.x for win32) reads like:
> [Mon Jun 23 03:41:45 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
> (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.  :
> couldn't create child process: 720003: printenv.pl
> [Mon Jun 23 03:41:45 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
> (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.  :
> couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache
> Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/printenv.pl
> [Mon Jun 23 03:43:31 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
> (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.  :
> couldn't create child process: 720003: test.sh
> [Mon Jun 23 03:43:31 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
> (720003)The system cannot find the path specified.  :
> couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache
> Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/test.sh
>
> now...that I think has to do with the mixed up of
> windows path and cygwin path...anyone can figure out
> how to do this?

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