[Mingw-msys] Re: Running .bat files

[Jonathan T. <tec...@ka...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On 7:41:02 pm 2005-08-05 "Jonathan Turkanis"
> <tec...@ka...> wrote:
>> Hi all,

>> Can any of this be shortened? In particular, is there a way to run
>> the .bat file from MSYS (I'm getting the error "fg: no job control")
>> or to run msys.bat from a directory other than the MSYS root (I'm
>> getting the error "Cannot find the rxvt.exe or sh.exe binary --
>> aborting")?
>>
>
> Yes, it requires several steps though.
>
> <file name="NOOP.c">
> int main (void) { return 0; };
> </file>
>
> <commands>
>  gcc -s -O3 -march=`uname -m` -o/bin/\#\!.exe NOOP.c
>  cp /bin/\#\!.exe /bin/\#.exe
>  cp /bin/\#\!.exe /bin/rem.exe
> </commands>
>
> <file name="/bin/cmdexe">
> #! /bin/sh
> # Copyright (C) 2005, Earnie Boyd
> #   mailto:ea...@us...
> # This file is part of Minimal SYStem.
> #   http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml
> # File: cmdexe
>
> CMD=`echo $1 | sed -e 's#/#\\\#g'`
> shift
> `echo $COMSPEC` //c $CMD "$@"
> </file>
>
> <example>
>  <file name="foo.bat">
> #! /bin/cmdexe
> # This is an example of executing a bat file from MSYS
> rem This is an example of executing a bat file from MSYS
> dir
>  </file>
> </example>

This is really cool!

I can't include it directly in the book, because it would require too much
explanation, but I'd love to include a link to it. Is there a stable archive for
this group?

> Enjoy,
> Earnie

Jonathan