Cygwin Package

[CMCDragonkai]

Can this be a Cygwin Package so it can be installed from Cygwin package installer?

[rprichard]

That makes sense to me. There's already an MSYS2 package.

It might make sense to deal with #43 first.

I've also been thinking that we may want to rename console.exe to winpty.exe, which is what the MSYS2 packager did. If so, it's probably better to do that before packaging it for Cygwin.

I'm unfamiliar with the process for creating a Cygwin package.

[CMCDragonkai]

Here's the guide I found for contributing new cygwin packages. Would be great to have this just installed so I can start using ghci natively!

https://cygwin.com/setup.html

[rprichard]

FWIW, I changed the default adapter name from console.exe to winpty.exe in master a few days ago in commit d984413.

[gene-pavlovsky]

Glad to find this discussion - the README talks about the winpty command but the Cygwin package has the console command. I tried it and it worked, so I figured it's gotta be same as winpty (should I create a symlink?), just wondered why the name is different. Read this and simply renamed the file.

[gene-pavlovsky]

I'd also like to use a Cygwin package to install winpty.

[lusitania]

For completeness, if you want to docker exec -it over Cygwin's mintty you get

the input device is not a TTY.  If you are using mintty, try prefixing the command with 'winpty'

Since cmd is the only (easily) available alternative I'm looking forward for a packaged winpty.

[CMCDragonkai]

@gene-pavlovsky Where did you find a Cygwin package for Winpty? I don't see it when searching for it. Or has it not been packaged yet?

[gene-pavlovsky]

@CMCDragonkai I was referring to the Cygwin release of winpty, available for download from winpty releases page on github, e.g. https://github.com/rprichard/winpty/releases/download/0.4.0/winpty-0.4.0-cygwin-2.5.2-x64.tar.gz
There is no official winpty package in Cygwin itself, as far as I know. Sorry for the confusion.

[rahmanya]

@lusitania I was having the same issue when I tried to run "docker run -it ubuntu bash" from cygwin.
here is what I did to resolve the issue:
Aparently, this problem is to do with MinTTY being implemented as pipes
instead of something that directly encapsulates a Windows console.

so the work around for this (after digging around some resources which I will reference below)
was to install WinPTY. This is a tool that launches a program in a typical Windows console,
captures the data, and forwards it to MinTTY seamlessly.

so I followed the guide from this website:
https://github.com/rprichard/winpty
after understanding that i needed to have the following cygwin packages:
-mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++
-gcc-g++
-make

I decided to re-install the version of my installed cygwin (this is not actually necessary, but I just wanted to start
on a clean slate)
I decided to have the follwong packages installed with my fress install of cygwin:
lynx, wget, curl, rsync
-python, python3
-bzip, tar
-Bash-completion
-vim, vim-common
-tmux
-git
-diffutils
-make
-gcc-c, gcc-g++
-openssh
-ncurses

after installing cygwin, I ran:
cd /bin
then clone the repo from like thus:

• git clone https://github.com/rprichard/winpty.git

then cd into the winpty directory and ran:
./configure, make and make install to setup the winpty package.

after that i tested my installtion from the cygein terminal: by entering the command:
$ winpty powershell
the result was success ! I got windows powershell propmt on cygwin

then i ran the docker exec command
$ winpty docker run -it ubuntu bash
and it worked !

but now i have some issues with my cygwin installation !
I keep getting " permission denied" error when I tried to
run ' apt-cyg' install command.

• i get a permission denied message also when I tried to start a 'Dockerized webserver'
  using the command:
  docker run -d -p 80:80 --name webserver nginx from cygwin

[PMarci]

I got winpty for exactly the same reason as @rahmanya, and his workaround (cygwin->ps->docker container) is enough for me. However the coloring of the PS syntax highlighting still produces invisible characters for me, despite your fix in d1cee5e.
I commented in #39 about this.

[7fe]

Please do this! Adding this to cygwin would make people life a lot easier.

[E3V3A]

bump!?

[TTimo]

the tarball listed above is working fine so far, but still .. +1 !

[chbieri]

the tarball listed above is working fine so far, but still .. +1 !

[ahsodex]

winpty makes my life working with Windows much better. Having a Cygwin package for winpty so I don't have to build it and can include in my standard Windows install plan would be even better still. But either way, thanks for making winpty.

[Saya47]

So until we get a Cygwin package, can anyone tell me where I should extract winpty-0.4.3-cygwin-2.8.0-x64.tar.gz? Thanks!

[gene-pavlovsky]

@Saya47 Anywhere in your Path would do. I put it into C:\cygwin64\usr\local\bin