esy-cygwin
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Cross-platform bash utilities - primed for Reason/OCaml
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esy-cygwin
Installation utilities for Cygwin - primed for Reason/OCaml
This package provides a ready-to-use Cygwin environment, with OCaml installed and set up with the OPAM repository for Windows.
On Linux and OS X, this package is not necessary.
Installation
npm install
Installation does the following:
- Downloads
cygwin
into a.cygwin
folder - Installs various utilities required on
cygwin
for OCaml & Reason -rsync
,patch
,mingw
, etc. - Sets up OPAM to point to the Windows repository: https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw/
Usage
Bash
Cygwin bundles a bash
shell, which can be found at .cygwin/bin/bash.exe
- you can use this to run commands, like:
> .\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -lc "ocaml --version"
The OCaml toplevel, version 4.03.0
License
This source code is licensed under the MIT License.
When installing, several other dependencies are downloaded - like Cygwin and the GNU utilities. These are bound by their own license terms.