bash.exe in Gow 0.7.0

[fitj]

I double-clicked bash.exe in Gow 0.7.0, but no window of bash.exe appeared.

Then, I opened a window of Command Prompt, went down to the Gow¥bind folder, and entered "gow". However, neither a message nor a new window of bash was obtained.

How can I use bash.exe included in Gow 0.7.0?

Please delete #64 in closed issues (my mistake).

[bmatzelle]

You're right. I'm having the same issue.

[podolsky]

Same here - Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1. From a command prompt running bash just returns silently; running from Start gives a brief flash of a command prompt but it's almost immediately closed.

[jwdonal]

"Same here - Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1. From a command prompt running bash just returns silently; running from Start gives a brief flash of a command prompt but it's almost immediately closed."

Exactly identical issue here. :( Guess I'll have to install the monstrosity that is cygwin. Any timeframe on when this will be fixed?

[r-moeritz]

Same issue. Please fix.

[yakimant]

So no way to run bash from GOW on Win7_64?
Maybe any workaround present?

[gclaramunt]

Same here... would love to get rid of Cygwin, and GOW bash is the only thing missing

[ab1234]

Here is the fix:
Create a directory named "etc" in GOW installation directory (For e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow).
Hope this helps :)

[bmatzelle]

That does help. I'll add this to the installer.

[bmatzelle]

I wasn't aware of that. Thank you.

[podolsky]

Fantastic - thanks ab1234!

[sjackman]

+1

[beruic]

@bmatzelle: So when will this new installer be available?

[bmatzelle]

Some time this summer. Whenever I have free time :)

[beruic]

Could you please make a decent PS1 showing the current path as well? Where is the .bashrc located? I'd gladly make one if you could tell me.

[parisio]

Just a note: I added /etc to my Gow installation directory, as an above poster recommended, which allowed bash to open fine with access to all commands as far as I could tell. I then integrated very simply with Console2 by creating a new tab, and Gow bin/bash.exe as the Shell. Maybe this can serve as a stopgap solution for some of you.

[eteeselink]

Did you ever add this to the installer? I just got Gow 0.8.0 but bash still didn't work. Manually creating /etc helped.

[ghost]

@eteeselink this is abandonware

[eteeselink]

@svnpenn with the latest release 3 months old?

[bmatzelle]

When I made the last release a few months back I just didn't get to this ticket. I don't have a lot of free time to clean up tickets. But this is Github so if you want to fork it and send me a pull request then I'd gladly work it in.

[eteeselink]

Thanks for the quick reply! I completely understand where you're coming from, I was just wondering what the status was. I'll see if I can find some time to work it in and make a pull request.

[ioleo]

I've got GOW 0.8. The installer did not add etc directory. Without it no bash scripts were working.

[DMcCunney]

Gow works as expected on my 64 bit Win7 Pro desktop. I'm currently configuring a 64 bit Win8.1 laptop. Gow installs from the 0.80 installer, but bash fails to run. Manually creating the etc directory does not resolve the issue. Does Win8.1 need something else?

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Dennis

[mdtdev]

FYI -- Gow's bash works on my Windows 10 system (64-bit Windows/x64) once I manually add the /etc directory to the Gow install location. The etc directory was not created by the installer (Gow-0.8.0). I will report if there are other problems with bash.

[alexgorbatchev]

What @mdtdev said above is still the case.

[heleno]

As of today, @mdtdev 's comments still apply. Attempting to invoke bash.exe resulted in a silent failure, with the command returning to the cmd prompt with no error message. I added the etc directory, and now bash happily starts up on Windows 10.

[CoderCowMoo]

Just to update, @mdtdev's & @ab1234's suggestions work fine with the same thing happening before and after creating the etc/ directory as described in @heleno's comment.

[despicableMinions]

@bmatzelle @CoderCowMoo @ab1234 @mdtdev @heleno
Even creating the etc/ folder in Gow-0.8.0, still cannot open bash.exe in the Win10 terminal. Error pops:

0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487
AllocationBase 0x13E0000, BaseAddress 0x1550000, RegionSize 0x81000, State 0x1000
gow\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0

refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18502999/git-extensions-win32-error-487-couldnt-reserve-space-for-cygwins-heap-win32, https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserverkb/couldn-t-reserve-space-for-cygwin-s-heap-790626826.html, it sounds like bug in msys-1.0.dll?