Today I tried installing these modules under Cygwin with pip. The whole thing took a few hours to figure out thanks to crappy bundled packages that pip fetches and lack of consistency between helps available online. To install pip, you need to have `python3-setuptools`installed. Then using the `easy_install3 pip` command you can install pip. After that, …
December 2015 archive
Dec 16
Essential Cygwin Development Packages
Whenever I want to do a new Cygwin install on Windows, I’d have to just keep scrolling the Cygwin installer window to find the packages that I use frequently. I decided to compile a list of packages I use and put them here so that I wouldn’t have to waste time on it again in the …
Dec 16
“sys/time.h” Replacement for Windows
Some C/C++ code targeted for GNU family compilers fail to compile under Windows due to the dependency on sys/time.h header file. The repository here has provided a neat implementation for it. Basically you need these three files: time.h, times.h and times.cpp. I have included them here (in case the repository ever went dead). Note that …
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