setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-10 Thread Keith Christian
Today I am reinstalling Cygwin to fix a DLL package, taking awhile but worth the wait (-: (-: Setup paused with a dialog to report a missing .xz file. I saw the error a half hour later. Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option box log errors to the setup.log file a

Re: Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:13 PM Chris Wagner wrote: > I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to > launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a > terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows > 7. I wrote a little to

Re: Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-06-10 3:24 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris Wagner writes: Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Because nobody needs it? Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command console

Re: Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Chris Wagner writes: > Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution > does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Because nobody needs it? > Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command > console to pop up. I've had it before in other

Re: ImageMagick 'convert' program broken, error in cyggs-9.dll x86_64/release/ghostscript/libgs9/libgs9-9.27-1.tar.xz

2019-06-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/10/2019 1:16 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > Strace shows this in a dialog box when it fails: > The procedure entry point uname_x could not be located in the > dynamic link library C:\cygwin64\bin\cyggs-9dll. > > > Version info: > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-O

Windowless Perl

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Wagner
Perl maintainers, I was wondering why the Cygwin Perl distribution does not contain a windowless Perl executable, wperl.exe. Directly executing the standard perl.exe from Windows causes a command console to pop up. I've had it before in other distros but it would be super handy to execute com

ImageMagick 'convert' program broken, error in cyggs-9.dll x86_64/release/ghostscript/libgs9/libgs9-9.27-1.tar.xz

2019-06-10 Thread Keith Christian
Strace shows this in a dialog box when it fails: The procedure entry point uname_x could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\cygwin64\bin\cyggs-9dll. Version info: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-OLN71TE 2.11.2(0.329/5/3) 2018-11-08 14:34 x86_64 Cygwin