Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Mainz, Roland]

Hi!

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Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?

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Bye,
Roland


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Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Bill Stewart]

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On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:07 AM Mainz, Roland  wrote:

Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without
> GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a
> CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
>

Have you looked at cygwin.com?

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 15/12/2023 18:07, Mainz, Roland via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> ----
> 
> Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
> 
> ----
> 
> Bye,
> Roland


the source code of the Cygwin build server is here

    https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/scallywag/

It builds cygwin packages and eventually also install them,
It creates the proper development environment installing the
needed package for every instance

log of the outcome are available at

  https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi

Regards
Marco

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Thomas Wolff]

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Am 15.12.2023 um 18:07 schrieb Mainz, Roland via Cygwin:
> Hi!
>
> ----
>
> Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
>
> ----
>
> Bye,
> Roland
Appveyor CI provides a cygwin environment. You could try to find how 
they do it.

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Jon Turney]

On 16/12/2023 02:41, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> On 15/12/2023 18:07, Mainz, Roland via Cygwin wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically 
>> (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be 
>> installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
>>
>> ----
[...]
> 
> the source code of the Cygwin build server is here
> 
>     https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/scallywag/

I wouldn't use this as a good example of how to do things, as it's 
rather specialized, and relies on the GitHub cygwin-install-action [1] 
to do the actual installation.


But to answer the question actually asked, no, there is no specific 
documentation on this.

However, there is information on the command line options that setup 
supports (linked to from [2]), and generally using '-q' and '-P 
packagelist' can perform an automated installation.


What do you think more specific documentation could usefully say? 
Patches or suggested words are welcome.


[1] https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin-install-action
[2] https://cygwin.com/install.html#cli

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

[Andrew Schulman]

> Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/745275/can-i-script-a-cygwin-install-to-include-certain-packages/7366200#7366200