Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-20 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:59:00, =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= wrote: And that's where you went off in the wrong direction. You're writing to the Cygwin mailing, but that's the MSYS2 package repository. Those are two different environments, so you should _not_ mix up them up like that.

python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

2017-07-20 Thread Daniel Fort
Hello Cygwin list, All of the scripts are missing from the June 19 update of python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version). Just a reminder--this was reported a while back but it is still in the same state. You can still go back one version on the Cygwin installer to the 0.13.1-1 version that works fine

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-20 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 20.07.2017 um 16:07 schrieb J: Hello Steven, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my question! I downloaded http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib-1.2.8-9-any.pkg.tar.xz And that's where you went off in the wrong direction. You're writing to the Cygw

Re: readshortcut fails on file name

2017-07-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 19.07.2017 um 00:57 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-07-18 14:52, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 16.05.2017 um 21:53 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 16.05.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Nellis, Kenneth: I have a Windows shortcut with Unicode character U+2013 (EN DASH) in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.1-1

2017-07-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.6.1-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream release with bug fixes and minor enhancements. See http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group_id=4235 for the changelog. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interact

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-20 Thread J
Hello Steven, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my question! I downloaded http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib-1.2.8-9-any.pkg.tar.xz I then copied the file libminizip.a contained within to /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/ I also copied the fi