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Questions tagged [gnuwin32]
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Using Gnuwin32 with Visual Studio (VC++)
Can someone explain me or direct me to some usefull links which tell how to make Visual Studio 2008 use Gnuwin libraries. And please tell me which Gnuwin package I should download.(Windows xp) I have been tring hours with out any luck.
This is…

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Gnuwin32 port of "find"?
Is there a problem with the Gnuwin32 port of "find"? It sort of works on my Windows XP command line, but I get blank stares when I try using file name pattern matching function. It's from "findutils-4.2.20" package. Had to rename to "gfind.exe" so…

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GNUwin32 make is conflicted with Git, how to avoid this situation?
Just found an error when use GNUwin32 Make in command line:
gnu make make: Interrupt/Exception caught
My system is Window 7. There are the Make path and the Git path in my system PATH variables.
When I remove git path from PATH variable, there's…

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Uploading documents to google drive with curl
I have a spreadsheet in Google Drive and want to update it with new information everyday.
I am using cURL, sed, and awk so far. I am thinking of mixing php with it (if necessary)
I have authenticated to my google drive and connected and can see…

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grep mistaking pattern for file?
cat file.txt | grep -x "\d*"
grep: \Documents and Settings: Is a directory
I want to search file.txt for any lines that are numbers only but grep seems to be viewing \d* as a wildcard for files and not the pattern. How can I specify that it's the…

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can't get make to use previously defined var's
I'm using the GnuWin32 project, and created a makefile to manage the compiling of some code. In the command line I run:
set PYUIC=python "E:\PortableApps\Portable Python 2.7.3.1\App\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\pyuic.py"
my make file contains the…

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How to install GD library with Strawberry Perl
I am attempting to install the GD library using Strawberry perl and GnuWin32. However, when I enter "install GD" in the CPAN shell, the following message appears:
'gdlib-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program…

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How to log output of unfinished / non-responding / hanging command in win7?
I want redirect console output of a command.
The thing is the command hangs midway (more or less) and even though it outputs to console the logfile is empty. I have also tried wtee.exe like so: com.exe | %pat%wtee.exe log.txt but it does not…

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FindUtils from gnuwin32 on Windows 7: simple pattern matching
I'm trying to use find command from FindUtils package from gnuwin32 with Windows 7 standard cmd.exe shell.
But when I type simplest possible command involving pattern matching, it doesn't work right.
If I type:
find . -name "*.java"
I end up with:…

Piotr Sobczyk
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changing every non letter character to \n in a file using unix utilities
i was watching a tutorial about using unix utilities the guy was using it on a MAC i had a windows laptop so i downloaded Gnuwin32 Package
then came a part where i want to replace any non letter character in a file with a newline "\n"
the…

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Makefile error: multiple object model
I use a makefile which should work under Linux, Windows and Mac.
The problem occurs for Windows, for the other operating systems it works fine.
I get this error:
Makefile 39: error: multiple object model
The content is (line 39 is the one with:…

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Batch File using sed in windows - unexpected append instead of replace
I've been tasked with migrating a group of batch scripts to Windows 7 (from XP) and have had a few problems using sed for substitution. What i need the line to do is find LogPath and anything inside the double quotes should be replaced with ABC…

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Converting file using `iconv` from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 yields UTF-16LE file
Title.
The command I run is:
iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 .\data\schema-utf16le.graphql > .\data\schema-utf8.graphql;
However, the generated file schema-utf8.graphql is still UTF-16LE encoded.
What am I doing wrong?
I am on windows and installed this…

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lua.vm.js is failing to build (make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.)
Ever since yesterday, I've been trying to install lua.vm.js to use it. I've hit some road bumps here and there but this one is by far the one I have no clue on how to fix. What I've been trying to do is literally build it, that's it. I got the files…

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Use 'make' and 'g++' on Windows OR how to get karambola working on windows
My goal: Install karambola on my Windows 10 maschine.
To install karambola I need the make command, which was never found with any programm. The only thing that worked was using GnuWin32 (when I was in the karambola directory):
& 'C:\Program Files…

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