"cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

whoops · 2009-10-15 15:05:55

Hi!

Well, what can I say... "sorry, the Internet is a mess" (and I probably keep looking in the wrong places), so: Is there a good "cygwin-stick project" somewhere?

I keep noticing, how helpless I sometimes am with batch. And I'm missing things like find, grep, curl, rsync and sometimes imagemagick & ffmpeg. Is there already a neatly maintained repo somewhere to sync the most important stuff to an usb-stick and carry it around?

( I know how to install cygwin to and make it run from an usb-stick... I guess I could figure out how to compile the most important stuff with XP... and there has to be an old WinXP cd+license somewhere I can use to do so... but there has to be a better solution, right? )

Thanks!

Heller_Barde · 2009-10-25 15:48:36

I honestly don't get what you mean. you already gave the right answer. install cygwin to a usb stick. and you say you are already able to do this, so what do you want except for that?

cheers
Barde

whoops · 2009-10-25 18:23:26

The cygwin installers I can find don't really look like thei're meant to be carried around on an usb-stick and used on different computers where cygwin isn't installed. Also, there's limited precompiled AND limited "should-be-able-to-compile/run-maybe" software, which seems to be all over the place.

So what I was searching for, was - like I wrote - something that's meant to be run on an usb stick. Something better maintained, maybe containing more software. Maybe as a zip archive or image to be extracted to an usb stick or as a svn repo or something. With updated every once in a while... and stuff. Sort of like a "small windows/GNU distribution".

Not a binary .exe file I have to install on a Windows Machine (which I'd have to scrap together from old parts first), copy installed system files around to get it run on another computer from usb-stick, search around all over the net for versions of things that could work, fiddle around with stuff some more to actually make it compile... and have a windows machine standing around just for updating the usb-stick.

Last edited by whoops (2009-10-25 18:24:31)

PJ · 2009-10-25 19:25:48

I have never tried it so I don't know if it works but I think this might be what you are looking for:
Cygwin On A Stick

JohnVV · 2009-10-26 02:58:34

i some what gave up on cygwin a few years back and stuck with MinGW
every time i am on a win box i DO miss nix commands .

I think in this mingw and cygwin are the same you would need to add the root path to the windows $PATH then reboot

look into mingw as an alternative
BUT do not build mingw as the default ( everything gets installed to "c:\\Program Files \oneprogram "
"c:\\Program Files \secondprogram " and so on.

i install it like this
c\\GnuWin32\Mingw
c\\GnuWin32\Mingw\bin ... and so on ...
c\\GnuWin32\msys
c\\GnuWin32\msys\bin ... and so on ...

that should also work for a usb drive
just be ready to edit EVERY text config file in the mingw stack , there are hardcoded pointers to things like c:\\Prog~1\libtif\lib

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#1 2009-10-15 15:05:55

"cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

#2 2009-10-25 15:48:36

Re: "cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

#3 2009-10-25 18:23:26

Re: "cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

#4 2009-10-25 19:25:48

Re: "cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

#5 2009-10-26 02:58:34

Re: "cygwin-stick" project or something? ("bash-on-stick-for-Windows")

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