Unable to configure path for cygwin about python-tools HOT 6 OPEN

Thankyou for posting this issue. I dont have a windows machine on me right now which makes this difficult to test, but I will try install a trial version of windows on a virtual machine when I can. What versio of windows is it that you are using?

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The location /usr/bin/ in Cygwin actually resides in PATH_TO_CYGWIN_INSTALLATION\usr\bin\, for example, in C:\cygwin64\usr\bin\. Have you tried pointing there?

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@kbrose, btw '/usr/bin' is dynamically mounted to the folder with cygwin dll. On my system it's c:\dev
cygwin\bin
"python" is cygwin symlink to "Python27.exe" and it can't be used outside of cygwin.

$ ls -la /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 /usr/bin/python2.7.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 /usr/bin/python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 /usr/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 /usr/bin/python-config -> python2.7-config

So, it won't find working Python in /usr/bin cause it looks for "python" executable, not "python2.7"

Probably it's better to configure path to executable instead of folder, as it's done for example in PyCharm

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Just for note,

1. Windows (native) executable of Python is installed as c:\Python27\python.exe
2. Cygwin executable is c:\cygwin\bin\python2.7.exe

so, it won't be in PATH if you're looking for "python"

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Ahh. I've not used cygwin for anything more advanced than getting the UNIX command line tools I'm used to so I haven't really looked to see how it was building out its file system.

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$ cp /usr/bin/python2.7.exe /usr/bin/python.exe
Set path to python directory to "C:\cygwin\bin"

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