esy-cygwin

v0.1.5

Cross-platform bash utilities - primed for Reason/OCaml

Installation utilities for Cygwin - primed for Reason/OCaml

This package provides a ready-to-use Cygwin environment, with OCaml installed and set up with the OPAM repository for Windows.

On Linux and OS X, this package is not necessary.

Installation

 npm install

Installation does the following:

Downloads cygwin into a .cygwin folder
Installs various utilities required on cygwin for OCaml & Reason - rsync, patch, mingw, etc.
Sets up OPAM to point to the Windows repository: https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw/

Cygwin bundles a bash shell, which can be found at .cygwin/bin/bash.exe - you can use this to run commands, like:

> .\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -lc "ocaml --version"
The OCaml toplevel, version 4.03.0

This source code is licensed under the MIT License.

When installing, several other dependencies are downloaded - like Cygwin and the GNU utilities. These are bound by their own license terms.

npm i esy-cygwin