Overview

Install a UNIX-like environment on a Win32 box. In my case, I have a Toshiba Satellite 305 laptop, 80MB, 2GB, Win95.

Cygwin

Start by dowlonading from http://www.cygwin.com, where Cygnus meets Windows. I got:

ash-20001012.tar.gz
autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
bash-2.04-5.tar.gz
binutils-20001221-1.tar.gz
bison-1.28-1.tar.gz
bootstrap.zip
byacc.tar.gz
clear-1.0.tar.gz
cpio-2.4.2.tar.gz
crypt-1.0.tar.gz
cvs-1.11.0-1.tar.gz
cygwin-1.1.7-1.tar.gz
dejagnu.tar.gz
emacs-20.6-bin-i386.tar.gz
fileutils-4.0-2.tar.gz
findutils.tar.gz
flex.tar.gz
gawk-3.0.4.tar.gz
gcc-2.95.2-6.tar.gz
gdbm-1.8.0-3.tar.gz
gettext-0.10.35-2p1.tar.gz
gperf.tar.gz
grep-2.4.2-1.tar.gz
groff-1.11a-1.tar.gz
inetutils-1.3.2-8.tar.gz
jbigkit-1.2-3.tar.gz
jpeg-6b-3.tar.gz
less-358-2.tar.gz
libpng-1.0.8-2.tar.gz
login-1.4-1.tar.gz
m4.tar.gz
make-3.79.1-2.tar.gz
man-1.5g-2.tar.gz
mingw-20001225-1.tar.gz
mt-1.9.1.tar.gz
patch.tar.gz
readline-4.1-1.tar.gz
regex-4.4.tar.gz
sed-3.02-1.tar.gz
setup.exe
setup.ini
shellutils.tar.gz
tar-1.13.18-2.tar.gz
tcltk-20001125-1.tar.gz
termcap-20001216-1.tar.gz
textutils-2.0-1.tar.gz
tiff-3.5.5-3.tar.gz
time.tar.gz
w32api-20001225-1.tar.gz
xpm-4.0.0-2.tar.gz
zlib-1.1.3-5.tar.gz

Put these in the public dir on the SAMBA server. Open the dir from the laptop, and copy the items into C:\junk\cygwin. Run setup.exe. When it asks, tell it to use the files in the local directory. Tell it to put the files in C:\toolkit. Ask for both an entry on the Start menu and a desktop icon. A few minutes later, you are ready to go.

Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to add C:\toolkit\bin;C:\toolkit\usr\bin to the PATH. Run autoexec.

Run C:\toolkit\emacs-20.6\bin\addpm.exe. Ask for an entry on the Start menu and a desktop icon.

Personalize

At this point, the system is ready for personalization.

Edit /etc/profile, changing the PS1 prompt:
```
PS1='\u@\h:\w
$ '
```
This takes out the color coding, making it usable in an emacs shell.
Copy over .profile. Comment out the test for /etc/profile. bash is already looking at /etc/profile, and using that to check for a local profile. So it gets into a loop. Also comment out the call to .bashrc, because this is already being called on bash startup. In other words, the file is empty.

Copy over .bashrc. Comment out the test for /etc/profile.

# Bash knows 3 diferent shells: normal shell, interactive shell, login shell.
# ~/.bashrc is read for interactive shells and ~/.profile is read for login
# shells. We just let ~/.profile also read ~/.bashrc and put everything in
# ~/.bashrc.

#test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile

# commands common to all logins

if ! [ $TERM ] ; then
    eval `tset -s -Q`
    case $TERM in
      con*|vt100) tset -Q -e ^?
        ;;
    esac
fi

#
# nearly no known program needs $TERMCAP - 'Slang'-programs get confused
# with a set $TERMCAP -> unset it.
# unset TERMCAP

# Some programs support several languages for their output.
# If you want them to use german, please uncomment the following line.
#export LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

#
# try to set DISPLAY smart (from Hans) :)
#
if test -z "$DISPLAY" -a "$TERM" = "xterm" -a -x /usr/bin/who ; then
    WHOAMI="`/usr/bin/who am i`"
    _DISPLAY="`expr "$WHOAMI" : '.*(\([^\.][^\.]*\).*)'`:0.0"
    if [ "${_DISPLAY}" != ":0:0.0" -a "${_DISPLAY}" != " :0.0" \
         -a "${_DISPLAY}" != ":0.0" ]; then
        export DISPLAY="${_DISPLAY}";
    fi
    unset WHOAMI _DISPLAY
fi


test -e ~/.alias && . ~/.alias


export DISPLAY LESS PS1 PS2
umask 022

##########################
#added 
##########################
alias emacs='//c/toolkit/emacs-20.6/bin/emacs -g 80x30+10+10 '

#---export paths-------------------
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH PYTHONPATH

The alias for emacs makes it fit on my rather small window.

Copy over .emacs, or actually .gnu-emacs-local, into .emacs. Edit to comment out the mail and gnus server items.

;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp -*-

;;;-----------------------------
;;;Set buffer list to use current window if >1 else split
;;;
(defun my-list-buffers (&rest args)
  (interactive)
  (let ((buff-window (get-buffer-window "*Buffer List*")))
    (if (and (not buff-window)                ; Not visible
	     (not (one-window-p 'no-mini)))   ; Multi-window
	;; Attach "*Buffer List*" to current window
	(switch-to-buffer "*Buffer List*")))
  (apply 'list-buffers args)
  (pop-to-buffer "*Buffer List*")            ; Go there
  (forward-line 3))                          ; Skip uninteresting stuff

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'my-list-buffers)

;;;----------------------------------
;;; bury menu buffer after selecting buffer
;;;
(defun Buffer-menu-this-window ()
  "Select this line's buffer in this window, and bury buffer menu"
  (interactive)
  (let ((menu-buffer (current-buffer)))
    (switch-to-buffer (Buffer-menu-buffer t))
    (bury-buffer menu-buffer)))

;;;-----------------------
(setq column-number-mode t)

;;;------------------------
;;; pdx
 (load-library "pdx-mode")
 (setq auto-mode-alist
       (append
       '(("\\.pdx\\'" . pdx-mode))
       auto-mode-alist))

;;;------------------------
;;; python
 (load-library "python-mode")
 (setq auto-mode-alist
       (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))
 ;;;(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
 (setq indent-tabs-mode ())
;;;-------------------------
(custom-set-variables
 '(explicit-shell-file-name "c:\\toolkit\\bin\\bash"))
(custom-set-faces)

Then copy over the pdx-mode.elc and python-mode.elc, into //c/toolkit/emacs-20.6/lisp/progmodes.

In //c/toolkit/bin, make a symlink for python:

  ln -s //c/'Program files'/python/python.exe python

Since this is a window-ized app, it thinks in terms of DOS-style file names. So to use it:

go:
   c:/toolkit/bin/pdx2html.py hello.pdx

pdx2html.pdx:
   #!/bin/python 

   import sys,Pdx.Html

   if __name__ == '__main__':
      p=Pdx.Html.Html()
      p.parse(sys.argv[1:])

Creator: Harry George
Updated/Created: 2001-01-07

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Overview

Cygwin

Personalize