Cygwin for compiling

It works as expected. But working with powershell is not a pleasure at all. That why I switched to cygwin.

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Try to use http://cmder.net/ the only one true console for windows (git and some linux commands included ) :wink:

Well, cmder is just a fancy GUI for PowerShell and cmd.exe, still no POSIX-stuff available. Still that ugly MS-Tooling, which might be powerfull but ugly to use…

Whenever I search for something that is an alternative for a well known and easy understandable BASH/ZSH one-line command, I will end up defining just another script for PowerShell, having a couple of lines and fighting myself against execution policy stuff, since it seems as if I’m not allowed to run anything except microsoft scripts by default.

And this things that make working with PowerShell a bad experience aren’t touched by (or in scope of) cmder.

But cmder has
https://git-for-windows.github.io/ (with Git BASH)
Clink

→ so some linux commands and git support

Git BASH
Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users should feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the “git” command in LINUX and UNIX environments.

Alternative there is Windows 10 bash (not tested it yet)
PS
You can install powershell on linux also :wink:

Well, git-for-windows/git bash is just a preconfigured mingw and focused on its job to provide git in windows. When you want to install additional software you have to either install them under windows and fiddle git-bash’s PATH or you have to do a sourceinstall in git-bash which sometimes makes the software in question unusable outside of the git-bash context.

But I have to admit, I might take a look at clink when I have some time to spare :wink: Thank you for that

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There is this topic

And this article
https://medium.com/@rpw952/elixir-development-on-windows-10-ff7ca03769d#.ei4bisiki

I had a good experience with cmder when I was working with nodeJS/AngularJS on Win7 - that being said it still didn’t stop me from moving to Arch (dual boot with Win10) for developing with OSS - so I never used it with Elixir.

However I would try it on a Win10 image that hasn’t been potentially compromised with the Cygwin situation.

As @NobbZ already stated cmder smoothes over some bumps but it isn’t *nix-on-win (which kept me pushing towards Arch) - but sometimes cmder is “good enough”.

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Nice article except I prefer Visual Studio Code / Spacemacs … :slight_smile:

Another vote here for cmder/conemu on Windows, I use it at work. :slight_smile: