All,
Am trying to get Node.js to work on Vista machine.
I installed Cygwin (as per the Github instructions) which appears to have been installed correctly. However, none of the commands are executing.
Are there any tutorials for the stages after the Cygwin installation?
PROBLEM: When any command is executed, I get 'Bash: command not found' error.
Not even command like 'c:\cygwin\bin' is executing.
When I type 'user' in cygwin command prompt, I get 'ntvdm has encountered an system error. Parameter incorrect'.
I thought the above error may be due to the firewall, disabling the firewall did not have any effect, running the program with admin rights also did not change the results...
Am confused and would love to get some guidance on what steps to go with next on getting Node.js up and running on a Windows Vista machine.
Many thanks,
UPDATE1:
We managed to make a bit more progress. It appears that we had not installed all the relevant files related to Cygwin. Upon re-download and reinstalled, it ran well, however, we have driven into another error. Error we get:
How to compile/install node.js(could not configure a cxx compiler!) (Ubuntu).
We followed the instructions as per the above thread (3rd post from top for Windows machines), however, we are still stuck at the same error.
Any guidance please?
Have you tried just using the Windows self contained binaries? http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/ This way you actually don't need to bother with Cygwin.
At first, i tried it your way too, using Cygwin. After smashing my head for the 10th time against a wall i just stopped trying and found a much cleaner solution.
I'm using VirtualBox running a Debain guest system to locally develop on my Windows 7 machine. Using VirtualBox, you can easily set up shared folders or port forwarding for node apps between your Windows machine and your Debian guest system.
Since you are using a plain Linux-system, all the compiling-pain is blown away.
If you plan to run node.js in production on a windows system: don't. I hardly believe node.js will be ever stable enough on windows-based systems using MINGW/Cygwin...
People seem to run into problems with Cygwin because they think that they are using a Windows machine.
If you install Cygwin, and open a bash shell prompt using the Cygwin icon, you are now in a UNIX environment and everything works the same as it would on UNIX. That includes building node.js.
I think you added some info to the question and I can see your problem. Yes, normally on Cygwin it has been possible to build node.js just as you would on any UNIX system, but that is no longer possible on Windows 7. Before running ./configure you have to:
Close all cygwin apps.
Double-click on C:\Cygwin\bin\ash.exe
Run ./rebaseall and when it completes, run ./perlrebase.
exit from the ash shell window.
At this point Cygwin will be back to normal and you can ./configure and make install.
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How can I use unix commands in Gitkraken?
So I've recently picked up coding again, going back to the basics, and when I was learning previously I used windows and installed Git Bash which uses a Unix command-line environment if I'm not mistaken. The Odin Project (the website I am learning to code from) does not support Windows as an operating system when learning to code due to various reasons listed on their website. I believe that Windows is adequate and would like to continue using it instead of using VMware or VirtualBox to 'install' Linux. The only issue I'm having is executing commands using GitKraken. Some of the commands are different, so I was just wondering if there is a way to use Unix commands in GitKraken? At this point, I am just curious if it is possible. I can continue to use Git Bash, however, GitKraken displaying a visual map of my repos is very helpful.
Ex. How to open a file
$ open ./index.html - macOS
$ start index.html - Windows OS
Any help would be appreciated.
I have downloaded and installed a Windows native compiled OpenFOAM from here. But when I try to run any of the OF commands (e.g., blockMesh, foamDictionary, ...) in the MSYS2 terminal I get the message:
path/to/folder/v2106/msys64/home/ofuser/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2106/platforms/win64MingwDPInt32Opt/bin/blockMesh.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-6.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
and in the cmd terminal, I get the error message:
System Error The code execution cannot proceed because msmpi.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
From here, I see that I might have to reinstall OpenFOAM in admin mode, which I don't have on this work machine. so I tried installing MSMPI using pacman -S msmpi as I used to do here. But I get the error message:
error: target not found: msmpi
My goal is to install and use the OpenFOAM software, doesn't matter which release, on this Windows machine without admin privileges. I would appreciate it if you could help me know how can I fix the above problems, or find another way around.
P.S.1. Searching the installation directory, I see that the libstdc++-6.dll file is in the path\to\folder\v2106\msys64\home\ofuser\OpenFOAM\OpenFOAM-v2106\platforms\win64MingwDPInt32Opt\bin. So I wonder I get the first error message. Maybe OF is not compiled properly against the library? Should I try removing the path\to\folder\v2106\msys64\usr\lib\gcc\x86_64-pc-msys\7.4.0\libstdc++.dll.a as suggested here?
P.S.2. I had written this post ages ago about different ways to install OpenFOAM on Windows. Sadly it is still a big effort to get it up and running.
P.S.3. A follow-up on this issue here on the MSYS2 Discord server.
P.S.4. Opened a new issue here on the OpenFOAM repository.
With OpenFOAM-v2112 it is now possible to install without windows admin permissions.
The original problem will still be evident with older OpenFOAM versions since they relied on installing msmpi separately.
I'm trying to test my development environment and keep getting this error while going through the "Building Your First Network". I've installed the prerequisites on a Windows 10 Home edition so I'm using Docker Toolbox. The error is described as follows and happens just after a execute the ./byfn.sh up -l node command:
2019-11-14 17:06:26.982 UTC [msp] loadCertificateAt -> INFO 002 Failed loading ClientOU certificate at [/var/hyperledger/orderer/msp/cacerts\ca.example.com-cert.pem]: [could not read file /var/hyperledger/orderer/msp/cacerts\ca.example.com-cert.pem: open /var/hyperledger/orderer/msp/cacerts\ca.example.com-cert.pem: no such file or directory]
As you can see there is a backslash just before the ca.example.com-cer.pem which I think is causing the problem. Anyone have an idea of how I might solve this issue?
Docker Toolbox for windows doesn't provide a great experience for users. It's limited in how it can share windows directories with linux containers running in the linux VM it creates. I believe it can be made to work but you have to use very specific folders in your home directory and you would have to google it to find all the details but it's a lot more of a hassle.
You have other options of course
Upgrade to Windows Pro and use Docker for Windows (which doesn't have the same sharing limitations, but still not a great experience and you can still encounter problems sharing the directories)
Install a hypervisor such as virtualbox and run a linux desktop distribution such as ubuntu or mint and use that instead (which I would recommend and would suggest ubuntu 18.04 mate edition)
Wait until next year when hopefully microsoft will release WSL2 for everyone (including home edition) and then Docker won't need a linux VM running and it should be a much better experience trying to run linux containers on windows.
As mentioned by lindluni here
Backslash problem in Hyperledger 2.0.1 when orderer/peer look for .pem files
the problem arises when one creates crypto artifacts under Windows since "golang filepath.Join uses the current OS's filepath scheme". Hence, under Windows backslash is used in all the generated config.yaml files found in crypto-config/*. One can replace this backslashes before the deployment to fix the issue.
I would like to build/launch the VSCode source code in the native Bash for Windows client. I have followed the steps outlined in the VSCode wiki on how to contribute, and everything is working as expected (All commands have been run on the WSL terminal following the Linux instructions)
After running yarn run watch, I try to launch VSCode by running DISPLAY=:0 ./scripts/code.sh from the source code directory, but nothing happens. I get two duplicate warnings:
[21496:1128/120229.392130:WARNING:audio_manager.cc(295)] Multiple instances of AudioManager detected
but I'm not sure if this is causing the problem. I have an X Server client running, and have used to to successfully launch native Windows applications through WSL (terminator, emacs, etc.)
Is what I'm trying to do possible? If so, how can I make it work?
Amazing that you asked this! I was attempting to do the exact same thing at (it seems) the exact same time. Here's my process.
Install XMing
Install the xfree apps
Set DISPLAY=:0
Run xeyes ==> Awesome googly eyes!
Attempt to build vscode from source. The build docs seem to be incomplete b/c I had to install a ton of libraries beyond those listed e.g.
yarn
gulp
gulp-cli
pkg-config
libx11-dev
libxkbfile-dev
libsecret-1-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libxss-dev
gnome-dev
libgconf2-dev
libnss3-dev
libasound2-dev
Eventually get the yarn tasks to finish such that I could run code.sh
./scripts/code.sh
[20474:1128/153959.035267:ERROR:bus.cc(427)] Failed to connect to the bus: F
ailed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or
directory
[20474:1128/153959.081986:WARNING:audio_manager.cc(295)] Multiple instances
of AudioManager detected
[20474:1128/153959.082101:WARNING:audio_manager.cc(254)] Multiple instances
of AudioManager detected
Looking at ps I see that the process was running.
Conjectures
It seems that building from source from WSL is not yet supported. Or maybe you can build the artifact, but you can't connect to the Windows display to show it. Based on the quality of the xeyes session, it looks like a very, very, very primitive experience e.g. still using WinXP-style minimize / maximize / close icons.
I was literally writing an Issue on their github page when I thought I'd do one last search and found this post. Much of vscode treats WSL as a second-class environment on Windows. Recent work seems to suggest that things are going to get better as driving to integration between Windows' two internal environments continues to improve (e.g. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/39144)
Update 2017-11-30
Based on some pursuit via Github, it seems that this issue has been reported to the WSL team: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2293. It appears to be under active consideration by the WSL team. I've added some commentary about my use case there.
I'm working on some scripts that use javaps (Linux Java Process Status ).
The majority of the development has been on linux, but now we need to switch to running them on Windows XP via GIT Bash and I get the following response.
$ javaps
/c/Documents and Settings/xxxx/bin/javaps: must be executed on Linux system (found MINGW32_NT-5.1)
Any ideas apart from not switching to windows.
I was not aware of JPS as suggested by Petesh and we can alter the scripts to work with this over javaps on Windows.
Playing with the arguments provides the information we require to be able to use it.