For scripting, we would like to have own dev and test environment. If you prefer do everything from command line and hate MS famous DOS terminal like me, this is solution for you – lightweight *NIX shell on windows. Let’s go. 1) setup *NIX like environment – msys + MinGW …
/etc/fstab #Automatically generated – modify fstab.model C:/portableapps/mingw /mingw C:/portableapps /local/portable C:/Python26 /local/python C:/xampp/php /local/php C:/xampp/perl /local/perl C:/xampp/mysql /local/mysql C:/portableapps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip /local/7zip seems not support space in window path, like: C:/”Program Files”/Java/jdk1.6.0_20 /local/jdk C:/Program\ Files/Java/jre6 /local/jre both way not work, and no clue from internet. only solution is place to /etc/profile: export …
Here are 3 version of portable msys start script. J:\portableapps\msys\usbmsys-sh.bat etc\fstab.model rxvt version J:\portableapps\msys\usbmsys-rxvt.bat Console2 version J:\portableapps\msys\usbmsys-console2.bat
Sometimes msys cannot start due to error: AllocationBase 0x6B0000, BaseAddress 0x800000, RegionSize 0x22E000, State 0x1000 C:\PortableApps\msys\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn’t reserve space for cygwin’s heap, Win32 error 0 this is workaround, run from cygwin: rebase -b 0x76000000 /cygdrive/c/PortableApps/msys/bin/msys-1.0.dll