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Tag Archives: Cygwin

Calling Java Under Cygwin

While trying to set up Clojure under Cygwin I found that doing mixed-mode between Cygwin and Java isn’t very happy due to the ‘;’ vs ‘:’ in the classpath. This post (via this post) provided an obfuscated Ruby program to take care of that for you… thanks! #!/bin/ruby # Slightly obfuscated cygwin + windows java [...]

How are DLLs used on Cygwin 1.7?

Over the weekend I needed to set up a R6RS Scheme interpreter on Cygwin. It came down to either PLT or Ikarus. Both seem to be straightforward builds but I couldn’t make PLT happy so I went with Ikarus instead. It was a very simple and straightforward configuration and took maybe a minute to build. [...]