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So that I can compile and test my code using gradle, I am trying to install gradle.
I want to unpack the Gradle distribution which comes packaged as a ZIP. However, there is a warning that says Mac OS X users should get a GNU compatible unzipper.
See http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/installation.html
"..need a GNU compatible tool to unzip Gradle...some zip front ends for Mac OS X don't restore the file permissions properly."
Where can I get a GNU compatible tool to unzip Gradle?
I recall using gzip (gunzip to unzip) on other systems which is a gnu thing. My MacOSX has gzip / gunzip on it.
So, I tried the following:
gunzip gradle-1.4-bin.zip
It gave me this error:
gradle-1.4-bin.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
I have followed several google posts and tried several different things. Listing those attempts would probably not serve at this point.
What does a person do to properly un-zip gradle on the Mac OS X so the file permissions are correct?
gunzip is used for unzipping .gz files, typically created using the gzip command. .zip files should be unzipped using the unzip command, using an invocation like unzip gradle-1.4-bin.zip.
Their note makes no sense. There is no GNU unzip, nor anything about any unzipper that could be called "GNU compatible". The zip format has nothing to do with GNU, and there are no GNU utilities that I'm aware of that process zip files. Perhaps they are thinking that gzip, which is GNU, processes .zip files, which it doesn't (as you discovered). gzip only works with .gz files, which are entirely different. That page needs to be corrected.
As for the front ends, I don't know which ones they're referring to. The command line unzip that comes with Mac OS X has always properly restored permissions and other attributes.
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There is no useful information on the site describing how to install the file .I have tried extracting the .tar file, installing through command prompt . there is no information available on the web.OS used is windows 11. Its for a project to extract data from images, using OCR. Poppler is used for getting page numbers of the pdf file which will be converted to an image file later in the process."https://poppler.freedesktop.org/" is the site from which I downloaded the file.Is this the right site.Any answer is helpful.Thank you
Poppler source is constantly updated, and thus common for Linux and Mac users to build or brew on demand. It is not much different when using Programming Suites like Python, Ruby etc.
Windows users expect one exe, but the poppler utils were built as a spin off from non-commercial licensed xpdf and for personal 32 bit users that is often simpler.
I have given examples for how simple that xpdf unpacking can be for one exe in several posts such as https://stackoverflow.com/a/68697144/10802527 (how to scan a file list, not used here) and https://stackoverflow.com/a/73123537/10802527 (how to use to run a single file) and
https://stackoverflow.com/a/73437398/10802527 (running one exe on demand)
Poppler prebuilt binaries are available as 64bit only so the first step after making a work directory is download latest version from https://github.com/oschwartz10612/poppler-windows using most current
https://github.com/oschwartz10612/poppler-windows/releases/download/v22.04.0-0/Release-22.04.0-0.zip and save to the working folder, then you can use right click Extract All... OR
tar -m -xf Release-22.04.0-0.zip to unpack in that folder so it should look like in the binary folder
Now the exe files are in a subdirectory and when using those it is best if that folder is included on the path environment.
RESIST any means to add using set or worse setx simply add folder via system gui, note in some cases after saving the setting it may need log off and log on to stick and in very rare cases even a reboot/restart.
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I have bought and I use Windows 7 Ultimate, and I like to use it to develop applications. One of the down sides (as with every OS) is that I can not run Bash scripts. Is there a way to run Bash scripts on Windows by installing some software? It is ok if it does not work 100%, but as long as the most common functionality is available it should be great.
Install Cygwin, which includes Bash among many other GNU and Unix utilities (without whom its unlikely that bash will be very useful anyway).
Another option is MinGW's MSYS which includes bash and a smaller set of the more important utilities such as awk (you may also want to check the competing fork - Mingw-w64). Personally I would have preferred Cygwin because it includes such heavy lifting tools as Perl and Python which I find I cannot live without, while MSYS skimps on these and assumes you are going to install them yourself.
Updated:
If anyone is interested in this answer and is running MS-Windows 10, please note that MS-Windows 10 has a "Windows Subsystem For Linux" feature which - once enabled - allows you to install a user-mode image of Ubuntu and then run Bash on that. This provides 100% compatibility with Ubuntu for debugging and running Bash scripts, but this setup is completely standalone from Windows and you cannot use Bash scripts to interact with Windows features (such as processes and APIs) except for limited access to files through the DrvFS feature.
Best Option I could find is Git Windows Just install it and then right click on and click "Git Bash Here" this will open a bash window
This will open a bash window like this:
and the linux commands work...
I've tried 'sh' , 'vi' , 'ssh' , 'curl' ,etc... commands
If you're looking for something a little more native, you can use getGnuWin32 to install all of the Unix command line tools that have been ported. That plus winBash gives you most of a working Unix environment. Add console2 for a better terminal emulator and you almost can't tell you're on Windows!
Cygwin is a better toolkit overall, but I have found myself running into surprise problems because of the divide between it and Windows. None of these solutions are as good as a native Linux system though.
You may want to look into using virtualbox to create a linux VM with your distro of choice. Set it up to share a folder with the host os, and you can use a true linux development environment, and share with windows. Just watch out for those EOL markers, they get ya every time.
Best option? Windows 10. Native Bash support!
You can always install Cygwin to run a Unix shell under Windows. I used Cygwin extensively with Window XP.
After installing git-extentions (http://gitextensions.github.io/) you can run .sh file from the command prompt. (No ./script.sh required, just run it like a bat/cmd file)
Or you can run them in a "full" bash environment by using the MinGW Git bash shell.
I am not a great fan of Cygwin (yes I am sure it's really powerful), so running bash scripts on windows without having to install it perfect for me.
In order to run natively, you will likely need to use Cygwin (which I cannot live without when using Windows). So right off the bat, +1 for Cygwin. Anything else would be uncivilized.
HOWEVER, that being said, I have recently begun using a combination of utilities to easily PORT Bash scripts to Windows so that my anti-Linux coworkers can easily run complex tasks that are better handled by GNU utilities.
I can usually port a Bash script to Batch in a very short time by opening the original script in one pane and writing a Batch file in the other pane. The tools that I use are as follows:
UnxUtils (http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/)
Bat2Exe (http://bat2exe.net/)
I prefer UnxUtils to GnuWin32 because of the fact that [someone please correct me if I'm wrong] GnuWin utils normally have to be installed, whereas UnxUtils are standalone binaries that just work out-of-the-box.
However, the CoreUtils do not include some familiar *NIX utilities such as cURL, which is also available for Windows (curl.haxx.se/download.html).
I create a folder for the projects, and always SET PATH=. in the .bat file so that no other commands other than the basic CMD shell commands are referenced (as well as the particular UnxUtils required in the project folder for the Batch script to function as expected).
Then I copy the needed CoreUtils .exe files into the project folder and reference them in the .bat file such as ".\curl.exe -s google.com", etc.
The Bat2Exe program is where the magic happens. Once your Batch file is complete and has been tested successfully, launch Bat2Exe.exe, and specify the path to the project folder. Bat2Exe will then create a Windows binary containing all of the files in that specific folder, and will use the first .bat that it comes across to use as the main executable. You can even include a .ico file to use as the icon for the final .exe file that is generated.
I have tried a few of these type of programs, and many of the generated binaries get flagged as malware, but the Bat2Exe version that I referenced works perfectly and the generated .exe files scan completely clean.
The resulting executable can be run interactively by double-clicking, or run from the command line with parameters, etc., just like a regular Batch file, except you will be able to utilize the functionality of many of the tools that you will normally use in Bash.
I realize this is getting quite long, but if I may digress a bit, I have also written a Batch script that I call PortaBashy that my coworkers can launch from a network share that contains a portable Cygwin installation. It then sets the %PATH% variable to the normal *NIX format (/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin), etc. and can either launch into the Bash shell itself or launch the more-powerful and pretty MinTTY terminal emulator.
There are always numerous ways to accomplish what you are trying to set out to do; it's just a matter of combining the right tools for the job, and many times it boils down to personal preference.
There's one more theoretical possibility to do it: professional versions of Windows have built-in POSIX support, so bash could have been compiled for Windows natively.
Pity, but I still haven't found a compiled one myself...
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dI have created an archive in 7zip. (files.7z) i created a config.txt file (I actually created 3 different ones at different times). I use the command line tool to create the sfx which works fine. but when I run the .exe I do not get the expected results. It is as if the sfx ignores the config.
I put the archive and config.txt in the 7-zip install directory and my command line looks like this:
C:\Program Files\7-Zip>copy /b 7z.sfx + config.txt + files.7z files.exe
When I run that the result looks like this
7z.sfx
config.txt
files.7z
1 file(s) copied.
Here is my config. I used notepad and made sure to save as UTF-8.
;!#Install#!UTF-8!
Title="MyApp Installer"
ExecuteFile="setup.exe"
InstallPath="%temp%\\My App"
;!#InstallEnd#!
I copy the files.exe to desktop in a folder. Run and it asks me where to extract, won't run the setup.exe (in the files.7z root)
What am I doing wrong? Ive been all over the 7-zip forum and can't find my error.
You're using the wrong SFX module -- you need to use 7zS.sfx instead of 7z.sfx . IIRC, 7zS.sfx doesn't come with 7-Zip by default, you have to download the 7z<ver>-extra.7z archive from SourceForge to get it.
According to the -sfx (Create SFX archive) switch and Command Line Version User's Guide:
SFX_Module - Specifies the SFX module that will be combined with the
archive. This module must be placed in the same directory as the
7z.exe. If SFX_Module is not assigned, 7-Zip will use standard
console SFX module 7zCon.sfx.
The whole process of creating installer is well documented, including an example of the config file and batch file you need to use to pack the installer. It's what you already did and posted here.
There is also a description of which module you need for the particular use-case:
SFX_Module Description
7z.sfx SFX module (GUI version)
7zCon.sfx SFX module (Console version)
7zSD.sfx SFX module for installers (GUI version)
7zS2.sfx small SFX module for installers (GUI version)
7zS2con.sfx small SFX module for installers (Console version)
The file that can be used to pack an installer / .exe project is 7zSD.sfx or 7zS.sfx.
They are both made for installers. Use it if you want to create a self-extracting archive that performs the installation, extracts archive to the temporary folder during the installation, runs the specified program and cleans the temporary files up after the installation is done.
The difference between them is:
7zSD.sfx uses MSVCRT.dll, which is the C standard library for the Visual C++ (MSVC) compiler from version 4.2 to 6.0. Your self-extracting archive won't run on pure, old Windows if some other application didn’t install MSVCRT.dll on that machine. It is included with every modern Windows installation, on top of which most Windows applications are built.
Since you should be safe now days about MSVCRT.dll, using both 7zS.sfx and / or 7zSD.sfx is ok, just pick one and things should work smoothly.
There is no need to download via SourceForge anymore. In current versions of 7-Zip, the required .sfx file is not part of 7z-Extra download, it is part of the LZMA SDK.
https://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
You need to extract LZMA SDK and copy 7zS.sfx and / or 7zSD.sfx next to the 7z.exe.
Dear stackoverflow members,
I have a question that might sound silly to most of the members here, but it is bothering me for quite a while now and couldn't find any appropriate answer for it, yet.
My question is, how can we run a source code or binary of a open source project which is distributed under GNU license.
When I download the project, all I get is a .tar file, when unzipped, I get a folder containing many sub-folders, like src, build and etc. This folder looks similar to the project folder created by an IDE like netbeans. But how can I compile and modify these source file?
Is there an application that does it? or do i have to switch to linux to do it?
I am currently using a copy of windows 7 and also have a copy of windows xp at disposal.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance.
cheers
Kishore.
Under GNU and GNU/Linux distros the packages are installed by the package manager (e.g. no need to build or download anything). Some programmers distribuite (along with the source code) binary versions of the program (which you run by clicking on them, or by invoking them from the command line). You can compile source code on Windows thanks to MinGW. For the istructions to run read the `README' file that you find in the unpacked dir. Most programs can be build with:
./configure; make; make install
If you post the link to the project I could help you with the building process.
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I have bought and I use Windows 7 Ultimate, and I like to use it to develop applications. One of the down sides (as with every OS) is that I can not run Bash scripts. Is there a way to run Bash scripts on Windows by installing some software? It is ok if it does not work 100%, but as long as the most common functionality is available it should be great.
Install Cygwin, which includes Bash among many other GNU and Unix utilities (without whom its unlikely that bash will be very useful anyway).
Another option is MinGW's MSYS which includes bash and a smaller set of the more important utilities such as awk (you may also want to check the competing fork - Mingw-w64). Personally I would have preferred Cygwin because it includes such heavy lifting tools as Perl and Python which I find I cannot live without, while MSYS skimps on these and assumes you are going to install them yourself.
Updated:
If anyone is interested in this answer and is running MS-Windows 10, please note that MS-Windows 10 has a "Windows Subsystem For Linux" feature which - once enabled - allows you to install a user-mode image of Ubuntu and then run Bash on that. This provides 100% compatibility with Ubuntu for debugging and running Bash scripts, but this setup is completely standalone from Windows and you cannot use Bash scripts to interact with Windows features (such as processes and APIs) except for limited access to files through the DrvFS feature.
Best Option I could find is Git Windows Just install it and then right click on and click "Git Bash Here" this will open a bash window
This will open a bash window like this:
and the linux commands work...
I've tried 'sh' , 'vi' , 'ssh' , 'curl' ,etc... commands
If you're looking for something a little more native, you can use getGnuWin32 to install all of the Unix command line tools that have been ported. That plus winBash gives you most of a working Unix environment. Add console2 for a better terminal emulator and you almost can't tell you're on Windows!
Cygwin is a better toolkit overall, but I have found myself running into surprise problems because of the divide between it and Windows. None of these solutions are as good as a native Linux system though.
You may want to look into using virtualbox to create a linux VM with your distro of choice. Set it up to share a folder with the host os, and you can use a true linux development environment, and share with windows. Just watch out for those EOL markers, they get ya every time.
Best option? Windows 10. Native Bash support!
You can always install Cygwin to run a Unix shell under Windows. I used Cygwin extensively with Window XP.
After installing git-extentions (http://gitextensions.github.io/) you can run .sh file from the command prompt. (No ./script.sh required, just run it like a bat/cmd file)
Or you can run them in a "full" bash environment by using the MinGW Git bash shell.
I am not a great fan of Cygwin (yes I am sure it's really powerful), so running bash scripts on windows without having to install it perfect for me.
In order to run natively, you will likely need to use Cygwin (which I cannot live without when using Windows). So right off the bat, +1 for Cygwin. Anything else would be uncivilized.
HOWEVER, that being said, I have recently begun using a combination of utilities to easily PORT Bash scripts to Windows so that my anti-Linux coworkers can easily run complex tasks that are better handled by GNU utilities.
I can usually port a Bash script to Batch in a very short time by opening the original script in one pane and writing a Batch file in the other pane. The tools that I use are as follows:
UnxUtils (http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/)
Bat2Exe (http://bat2exe.net/)
I prefer UnxUtils to GnuWin32 because of the fact that [someone please correct me if I'm wrong] GnuWin utils normally have to be installed, whereas UnxUtils are standalone binaries that just work out-of-the-box.
However, the CoreUtils do not include some familiar *NIX utilities such as cURL, which is also available for Windows (curl.haxx.se/download.html).
I create a folder for the projects, and always SET PATH=. in the .bat file so that no other commands other than the basic CMD shell commands are referenced (as well as the particular UnxUtils required in the project folder for the Batch script to function as expected).
Then I copy the needed CoreUtils .exe files into the project folder and reference them in the .bat file such as ".\curl.exe -s google.com", etc.
The Bat2Exe program is where the magic happens. Once your Batch file is complete and has been tested successfully, launch Bat2Exe.exe, and specify the path to the project folder. Bat2Exe will then create a Windows binary containing all of the files in that specific folder, and will use the first .bat that it comes across to use as the main executable. You can even include a .ico file to use as the icon for the final .exe file that is generated.
I have tried a few of these type of programs, and many of the generated binaries get flagged as malware, but the Bat2Exe version that I referenced works perfectly and the generated .exe files scan completely clean.
The resulting executable can be run interactively by double-clicking, or run from the command line with parameters, etc., just like a regular Batch file, except you will be able to utilize the functionality of many of the tools that you will normally use in Bash.
I realize this is getting quite long, but if I may digress a bit, I have also written a Batch script that I call PortaBashy that my coworkers can launch from a network share that contains a portable Cygwin installation. It then sets the %PATH% variable to the normal *NIX format (/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin), etc. and can either launch into the Bash shell itself or launch the more-powerful and pretty MinTTY terminal emulator.
There are always numerous ways to accomplish what you are trying to set out to do; it's just a matter of combining the right tools for the job, and many times it boils down to personal preference.
There's one more theoretical possibility to do it: professional versions of Windows have built-in POSIX support, so bash could have been compiled for Windows natively.
Pity, but I still haven't found a compiled one myself...