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Well, I just installed this. I always assumed tmux wasn't compatible with Cygwin, but I guess it is. Note that you can skip steps 2 and 3 if you install libeve
by rossy 13y ago
Well, I just installed this. I always assumed tmux wasn't compatible with Cygwin, but I guess it is.
Note that you can skip steps 2 and 3 if you install libevent-devel and libncurses-devel in step 1. The Cygwin provided versions of these packages are good enough (in fact, libevent is the same version.) Also, I didn't get any warnings when running autogen.sh, but I have all the available versions of autoconf and automake installed, so that might be why.
- Ives 13y agoYou were right until very recently. If I recall correctly, tmux used to send file descriptors over sockets, something which isn't supported by cygwin. Pretty recently someone made a patch to tmux that allowed it to work without the unsupported behaviour.
- rossy 13y agoI see. It would have been nice to see the problem fixed on the Cygwin side, but either way, it's great to be able to use tmux on Windows. I missed it.