Julia 0.4 and earlier shell out to command line git for Pkg. If you haven't run `make win-extras binary-dist` then run the generated installer, then when you run Julia in cygwin it is trying to call cygwin's git which does not work.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:13 PM -0800, "digxx" <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: @Tony: Yeah I knew that, though the actual command Seth proposed ./xxx is what I was looking for: ./ for executables I didnt know :-( So now it seems to load in cygwin but when trying the Package thing I get this: julia> Pkg.status() INFO: Initializing package repository C:\cygwin64\home\Diger\.julia\v0.4 INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl error: could not lock config file C:\cygwin64\home\Diger\.julia\v0.4\jul51F3.tmp\METADATA\.git/config: No such file or directory ERROR: failed process: Process(`git '--work-tree=C:\cygwin64\home\Diger\.julia\v0.4\jul51F3.tmp\METADATA' '--git-dir=C:\cygwin64\home\Diger\.julia\v0.4\jul51F3.tmp\METADATA\.git' config remote.origin.url git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl`, ProcessExited(255)) [255] in pipeline_error at process.jl:555 So is there a write problem?
