I installed gcc-g++ through Cygwin on Windows 10. If you've ever used Cygwin on Windows, just before installing, it provides a huge list of different applications that can be used with it. Most of them, in addition to checking their install box, you can also check the source code box. I assumed this meant that it stores the source code of the application so that we can review it in order to understand how it's working.
I checked the box for gcc-g++, and I checked their source code box. However, when looking through the Cygwin installation folder, I can't seem to find where the source code is for the gcc-g++ application.
I was hoping that someone out there knew what folder their source code is stored in when installing through Cygwin to a Windows machine.
Thank you.
all cygwin source packages should be installing under /usr/src.
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I'm trying to preview my GitHub Pages locally (to edit the CSS), or create a Jekyll website, from Windows. Following the Jekyll insruction, I installed Ruby and Gems, including Jekyll itself. The instruction points me also to GCC and Make as other requirements, but I'm confused. The GCC page is a list of non-link names of many packages that I don't know how to install, and the Make page leads to a series of tar.lz.sig that also I don't know how to use on Windows. A search for "GCC" led me to CodeBlocks, and I downloaded codeblocks-20.03mingw-setup.exe that supposedly contains the GCC. I ran this exe, it installed CodeBlocks. Then, upon getting launched, CodeBlocks "can't find compiler executable". Some solution online says to fix the path by locating the mingw folder in Program Files, but my Program Files doesn't have a mingw folder. I did a search for "mingw" over my entire C:, and nothing came up. I re-installed codeblocks-20.03mingw-setup.exe and also tried codeblocks-20.03-setup.exe, and I still don't have the mingw folder, CodeBlocks still isn't detecting the GCC.
(By the way, when I was previously setting up GitHub Desktop, I used Git Bash, and in it I might have seen something like "mingw", but after that the app won't launch again when I click on "Open" or "Run as adminstrator" from Windows Start menu.)
Git for Windows SDK apparently uses over 5.25GB of disk space and I have no use for developer kit bloat. Now I want to uninstall but I could not find any instructions online or in documentation. On Windows 7 after install there is no uninstall.exe and no uninstall listing in Programs list. Everything seems to be under the directory:
c:\git-sdk-64
So I would just delete that directory.
I don't see any additions to the Windows path that seem to relate to the Git for Windows SDK.
My basic goal is just to use AVRdude and AVR Toolchain for Windows under windows 7 as described in the instructions here:
https://www.pololu.com/docs/0J67/5.5
where I need Msys2 with pacman to install AVRdude, and I would install tree command, and I want to use a Linux command environment on Windows and Linux to develop AVR Programming resources in a cross platform manner. Any advice from experience would be appreciated since I don't want to pollute my Windows 7.
EDIT - Using windows file explorer, right click on sdk folder, properties, size shown is 5.49GB on disk. I don't see any links installed in the Program menu and I doubt there are other files installed anywhere else. So I am just going to delete this whole folder.
When first installed, the console prompt a clonning action from the github repository. Furthermore, the path choose has a .git folder in it where current status and branches can be seen through command line (with git status).
I havent' seen or ask for the code of the executable, as it might link or copy to other paths, but to me it's very probable it just downloads the github repo and compiles some executables (as files are not exactly the same as in the repo).
The only thing to care is the link created to desktop.
A Unix (mac/Linux) user who has been forced to work on a windows machine here :)
I have scripted loads of work in GnuPlot and don't want to switch to other programs at this moment. I would appreciate it if you could help me know how to install GnuPlot On windows (more specifically windows 10). questions:
I know there are two options according to this page, Cygwin and MinGW. which one is better?
I have MinGW installed and I know I need to install one of the options from this page but I don't know which one(s)! and how.
I have searched the internet but it seems most of the search results are for compiling. I don't want to go through compiling and all the hassle.
I tried installing the binary from this link, and when I try to run the program this is the error I get:
Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\gnuplot\bin\wgnuplot.exe
CreatProcess failed; Code267.
The directory name is invalid.
I would appreciate it if you could give me a very simple stepwise installation (1 2 3 ...), preferably with visuals, and instructions.
P.S. A nice way to install Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) on Windows and keep them updated, is to use package managers like Chocolatey. There are GnuPlot chocolatey packages here. Just install choco as instructed here. Then use choco install Gnuplot to have the software installed.
You don't have to install MinGW or Cygwin. Actually packages compiled in MinGW are compatible with Windows. Just download the binary of gnuplot from Their repo and you are good to go.
Additional points:
When installing, check which terminals you want to set up; also
check if you want the installer to add the PATH variable to your
system. Also, create a desktop shortcut.
After installation, you should see the desktop shortcut. Clicking on it should open a terminal-based gnuplot (which hopefully you are familiar with).
Please note that I have used the x11 terminal (you can get this working by installing xming). There are other options such as windows and qt terminals, but I am not an expert on using these.
You should have Administrator rights on this machine.
Right click on MinGW, Run as Administrator, install - should be OK.
Good luck!
BR, Alex
You can try
$~ scoop install gnuplot
Installing 'Gnuplot' (5.4.5) [64bit] from main bucket
gp545-win64-mingw.7z (37.7 MB) [=======================================] 100%
Checking hash of gp545-win64-mingw.7z ... ok.
Extracting gp545-win64-mingw.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\Gnuplot\current => ~\scoop\apps\Gnuplot\5.4.5
Creating shim for 'gnuplot'.
Creating shortcut for GNUPlot (wgnuplot.exe)
'Gnuplot' (5.4.5) was installed successfully!
I would require some guidance in regards to installing a module/package in pycharm (free edition). I have to mention that i have not worked with this IDE yet and wanted to try it out on a little project containing smartcards.
When i try to install "pyscard" i get the error that boils down to
error: command 'swig.exe' failed: No such file or directory
People say just install SWIG, which i guessed already ^^.
The issue i have is that i actually have no idea how to... and none of the pages i found has really enlightended me on this issue.
I downloaded the zip "swigwin-3.0.12" but i am at a loss what to do with it now. EDIT: According to the SWIG page this is an already compiled version and i have to somehow make pycharm recognize that the folder it is in contains the swig.exe it requires.
EDIT2: Adding the folder containing the swig.exe to the PATH variable also did not work ... which i thought would be the issue
EDIT3+Answer:
Ok the link in the comments from "wp78de" was correct my problem was that pycharm/pc restart were needed for it to catch the added PATH variable to the swig.exe (for pycharm that is)
Any advice is appriciated.
Envoirment:
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Pycharm 2017.2.4
Python 3.6
Basically, you just have to add the directory that contains the swig executable the PATH environment variable. You can do it via CMD or the Windows UI.
If you have added swig to your path, you should be able to call it in the command prompt from any directory: open "cmd", and type swig --help" on that prompt.
A restart of PyCharm (or whatever your IDE is) and Windows might be required.
Is it possible to create Windows executable files for Python and C/C++ code within the Eclipse workbench? If yes, then how can this be done?
This is how I create .exe files from eclipse, in windows. Is not within the eclipse workbench but it might help you. To avoid problems, I would recommend to download everything for 32 bit even if you use 64 bit computer.
Install python 2.6
Install Eclipse
Install py2exe
In eclipse go to Help > Install new software and install pydev plugin from http://pydev.org/updates/
In windows preferences point the python interpreter to the location of your python.exe in your computer (C:/Python26)
you might need to add py2exe to the libraries
create a python module called setup.py with a code similar to this one:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(windows=['H:/yourworkspace/YourPythonProject/src/yourprogram.py'])
open windows console and type
python H:/yourworkspace/YourPythonProject/src/setup.py py2exe
this will create a .exe located in C:/Python26/dist folder. It should work if you double click it but you cannot take it to a computer without python or any of the libraries that you´ve used. To do that, you can use Inno Setup.
It's very easy to use, basically it will ask for the location of the .exe, the dlls and folders that you want to add (I don't know about this so I add most of the things inside my C:/Python26/dist and it works). Inno setup will create an script and generate a .exe that you can install in any computer. You might need to edit the [Icons] part of the script, I had problems with that before to add an icon to the application.
That should hopefully work,
good luck.
Not sure I understand what you're asking as you're mixing Python/C++ in your question...
If you want to embed Python in some library, Google for 'embed python in c++'
If you just want to package Python to run Python code with extension modules, search for py2exe or cx-Freeze (personally, I like cx-Freeze better).
I don't think any of this is PyDev/Eclipse dependent (this should be IDE agnostic).
In addition to Fabio's answer:
In terms of C/C++, if you compile it on windows, eclipse does create yourprog.exe file automaticaly in order to be executed (in case if you have your main function written in C/C++). Look for your executable in bin folder of your project.
In terms of compiler: I use Cygwin. It simulates Linux environment. It contains (not by default though) g++ compiler, which, because of cygwin, compiles it in binary that can be launched in Windows (i.e. .exe file). I am not sure exactly about whether Linux binary is then converted to Windows binary or it is directly compiled for windows, but I know that this .exe file alone works if you run it.
Let me know if you need help installing Cygwin.