Greetings, Aaron Schneider! >>> Probably compiling binaries under cygwin without the exe extension, like >>> unix, is not an alternative, or is it? Cygwin may detect if it is >>> executable checking if it's PE format; if it is perl script. Just check >>> if file is present in path or run. /file >> >> False. It is wholly possible, you just have to pass the correct flags >> to the linker process. Current windows versions since at least XP and >> maybe before would run files that did not contain a .exe extension. >>
> I don't see how you can run a PE executable from windows shell (cmd.exe) You're comparing apples to oranges. You've been told already that Cygwin doesn't try to emulate windows shells or anything of that kind. > directly without the exe extension. I've just tried it in several ways > and always prompts me the "Open with..." dialog instead of directly > running it because treats it as data. > When you say that Windows XP and above can run an executable without > extension, you are talking about running it from windows shell. No, he's talking about CreateProcess[Ex]() function call. It's possible to execute binary with arbitrary name, since at least Win NT 4.x if memory serves me well. > But I was referring in the end to the cygwin terminal > (C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -) that I believe can run exe without > extension even in older versions of windows, because it's bash that > launches it as you said before. You're confusing shell with terminal... don't you? Try mintty.exe -h -e C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K You'll be surprised. > That's being said because I expect users to run commands from the cygwin > terminal. The exe extension is needed if you want to run the linux > commands directly from the windows shell directly (c:\cygwin\bin\ and > other bash PATHs should be exported to the windows PATH to run them > directly from windows shell, but you will mix things up) I do like to mix things. Alot. Life is just not the same without that. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 11.07.2012, <04:32> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple