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bmatzelle
bash.exe in Gow 0.7.0
I double-clicked bash.exe in Gow 0.7.0, but no window of bash.exe appeared.
Then, I opened a window of Command Prompt, went down to the Gow¥bind folder, and entered "gow". However, neither a message nor a new window of bash was obtained.
How can I use bash.exe included in Gow 0.7.0?
Please delete #64 in closed issues (my mistake).
Same here - Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1. From a command prompt running bash just returns silently; running from Start gives a brief flash of a command prompt but it's almost immediately closed.
"Same here - Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1. From a command prompt running bash just returns silently; running from Start gives a brief flash of a command prompt but it's almost immediately closed."
Exactly identical issue here. :( Guess I'll have to install the monstrosity that is cygwin. Any timeframe on when this will be fixed?
Same here... would love to get rid of Cygwin, and GOW bash is the only thing missing
Here is the fix: Create a directory named "etc" in GOW installation directory (For e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow). Hope this helps :)
Could you please make a decent PS1 showing the current path as well? Where is the .bashrc located? I'd gladly make one if you could tell me.
Just a note: I added /etc to my Gow installation directory, as an above poster recommended, which allowed bash to open fine with access to all commands as far as I could tell. I then integrated very simply with Console2 by creating a new tab, and Gow bin/bash.exe as the Shell. Maybe this can serve as a stopgap solution for some of you.
Did you ever add this to the installer? I just got Gow 0.8.0 but bash still didn't work. Manually creating /etc helped.
When I made the last release a few months back I just didn't get to this ticket. I don't have a lot of free time to clean up tickets. But this is Github so if you want to fork it and send me a pull request then I'd gladly work it in.
Thanks for the quick reply! I completely understand where you're coming from, I was just wondering what the status was. I'll see if I can find some time to work it in and make a pull request.
I've got GOW 0.8. The installer did not add etc directory. Without it no bash scripts were working.
Gow works as expected on my 64 bit Win7 Pro desktop. I'm currently configuring a 64 bit Win8.1 laptop. Gow installs from the 0.80 installer, but bash fails to run. Manually creating the etc directory does not resolve the issue. Does Win8.1 need something else?
Dennis
FYI -- Gow's bash works on my Windows 10 system (64-bit Windows/x64) once I manually add the /etc directory to the Gow install location. The etc directory was not created by the installer (Gow-0.8.0). I will report if there are other problems with bash.
As of today, @mdtdev 's comments still apply. Attempting to invoke bash.exe resulted in a silent failure, with the command returning to the cmd prompt with no error message. I added the etc directory, and now bash happily starts up on Windows 10.
Just to update, @mdtdev's & @ab1234's suggestions work fine with the same thing happening before and after creating the etc/ directory as described in @heleno's comment.
@bmatzelle @CoderCowMoo @ab1234 @mdtdev @heleno Even creating the etc/ folder in Gow-0.8.0, still cannot open bash.exe in the Win10 terminal. Error pops:
0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x13E0000, BaseAddress 0x1550000, RegionSize 0x81000, State 0x1000 gow\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18502999/git-extensions-win32-error-487-couldnt-reserve-space-for-cygwins-heap-win32, https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserverkb/couldn-t-reserve-space-for-cygwin-s-heap-790626826.html, it sounds like bug in msys-1.0.dll?
