Cygwin/MSYS connector

This helper tool for ConEmu-Maximus5 provides POSIX environment for:

• Cygwin: conemu-cyg-32.exe and conemu-cyg-64.exe;
• MSYS 1.0: conemu-msys-32.exe;
• MSYS 2.0: conemu-msys2-32.exe and conemu-msys2-64.exe.

How to use connector

How to install and use connector read in ConEmu docs.

Please note, status of this plugin is ‘Experimental’.

WARNING

• Do not run connector from cygwin or msys shell! Different cygwin/msys layers will cause problems!
• Connector might be started as ROOT PROCESS or from some native shell (like cmd.exe) already started in ConEmu.

Screenshots

Just a cat AnsiColors256.ans from bash

256 colors in Vim (Zenburn color scheme)

License (BSD 3-clause)

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.

Some build notes

Some preparations may be required to build ‘connector’ from sources.

Common

Copy set_vars_user.sample.cmd to set_vars_user.cmd and edit new file to define your own paths to used toolchains (cygwin, msys) and utilities.

MinGW / MSys 1.0

• Run bin\mingw-get.exe.
• Select ‘MSYS System Builder / msys-gcc’ to install and ‘Apply changes’ from menu.

Cygwin 32/64 bit

I used to install 32bit and 64bit cygwin toolchains into separate folders to avoid path problems.

• In cygwin setup utility setup-x86.exe (32-bit) or setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit) type ‘g++’ in the ‘search’ field.
• Install ‘gcc-g++: GNU Compiler Collection (C++)’. If you don't see it, choose ‘Full’ in the ‘View’ drop-down listbox. Don't install toolchains which package name are started with ‘mingw’ or ‘cygwin’.
• Complete cygwin installation or update.

MSYS2 32/64 bit

• Install MSYS2 using msys2-i686-latest.exe (32-bit) or msys2-x86_64-latest.exe (64-bit).
• Open msys shell
• Run pacman -Syuu to install updates and close msys shell window. Repeat until there are updates.
• Run pacman -S --needed msys2-devel to install required packages.