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christophe.troestler

03 Dec, 2015 04:06 PM

I use platform=w64 and os=Unstable because it comes with Cygwin preinstalled. However, cygpath is uttering plain nonsense, specifically the second output of:

cygpath -w "/c/Program Files/OCaml"
C:\Program Files\OCaml
cygpath -w "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/OCaml"
C:\Program Files\Git\cygdrive\c\Program Files\OCaml

Before I report this to Cygwin, may you check & confirm that Cygwin is properly installed on your end?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 03 Dec, 2015 06:27 PM

   

   Well, it depends on what would you mean under "properly installed"? It's basically XCopy deployment.

   Oh wait, looking at the build log... it might be conflicting with the tools coming along with Git for Windows.

   Try adding set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% in the beginning of your build.

   PS: You don't need unstable anymore - cygwin is installed on all build workers.

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2. 2 Posted by christophe.troe... on 03 Dec, 2015 10:16 PM

   

   This indeed makes cygpath behave more sensibly:
   https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Chris00/ocamlfind-win/build/1.0.97#L7

   I'll have to see now whether it is not Git — that I need as well — that has a problem...

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3. 3 Posted by christophe.troe... on 03 Dec, 2015 11:42 PM

   

   BTW, is the fact that Cygwin is installed on all workers advertised somewhere? (I saw mention of it only in some discussions.)

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 04 Dec, 2015 12:25 AM

   

   It's here: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software#mingw-msys-cygwin

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5. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:02 AM.