That created an installer, you need to run the installer to get a build of julia with everything in place for Pkg to work properly. There are manual ways of avoiding this step but it's a bit messy.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM -0800, "digxx" <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: Again Thx for you answer: But I dont quite get what you mean. I havent run this win-extras binary-dist though I just did. But it didnt change anything :-/ I have some executable in my Julia folder now: julia-0.4.1-pre-x86_64.exe Run it from shell by ./julia-0.4.1-pre-x86_64.exe will tell me: -bash: ./julia-0.4.1-pre-x86_64.exe: Permission denied Did you mean sth else? Am Dienstag, 3. November 2015 00:25:31 UTC+1 schrieb Tony Kelman: > 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...@hotmail.com > <javascript:>> 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` > <http://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl>, ProcessExited(255)) [255] > > in pipeline_error at process.jl:555 > > > So is there a write problem? > > > > > > >
