cmder package builder

Builds cmder portable installation with several features preinstalled:

• Cygwin environment,
• apt-cyg script,
• depot_tools,
• portable installation of JRE and JDK,
• Gradle build system,
• Clojure REPL and Leiningen builder,
• Node.js Node.js REPL,
• Python REPL,
• Ruby REPL,
• Far manager,
• portable versions of text editors and IDEs:
  • Atom text editor,
  • LightTable IDE,
  • Nightcode IDE,
  • Sublime Text text editor,
• some preconfiguration:
  • Cmder have Cygwin, Clojure REPL, Python REPL and Ruby REPL tasks out of the box,
  • git-prompt in Cygwin,
  • environment variables (PATH, JAVA_PATH, etc) set dynamically on Cmder startup.

Enabling running scripts

When you see warning:

File build_cmder.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is
disabled on this system. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more
details

run following line in a PowerShell with admin rights:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

and confirm your choice with Y.

Building

Cygwin setup crashes when started in x64 PowerShell, so script ensures that it will be run only with PowerShell x86.

Run in a PowerShell:

.\build_cmder.ps1

In the process Cygwin installer will appear - let it do the job. If you want to change installation use setup_cygwin.ps1 script.

Once build is completed run Cmder.exe and let it update Conemu to its newest version. With older one (distributed with Cmder) startup errors might appear, and some functionalities (like copying text by highlighting) are not available.

Cygwin setup

Once Cygwin is installed it can be further configured by running:

.\setup_cygwin.ps1

and choosing packages to install/remove.

Installation troubleshoting

• Cygwin installation takes forever/fails - some packages are available only on mirrors.kernel.org. For some reason the site has sometimes problems with FTP transfer and Cygwin Setup cannot either connect or has very slow transfer. You can try to restart script (it saves your progress so you won't have to install the same thing twice), or try to rerun it some time later.
• Gradle installation freezes even though all files are extracted - Gradle actually hav > 10k files to extract, many of them so small that you might not notice, that they are still being extracted when you check directory size only. Wait a litte bit more.
• Editors (Atom, Light Table, Sublime Text) fail to extract - for some reason, uknown to me, even though file is downloaded on first try script might show error that it cannot find it and thus is unable to extract files. I can only guess that it is some sort of race condition or other error on my part resulting in call for extraction just before filesystem knows that downloaded file arrived. Rerunning script helps (one might need to remove symlinks.mrk file to try to create symlinks again).

Portability

Basically whole package was build with portability in mind. OTTOOMH only set_PATH_depottools.ps1 modifies PATH environment vairable and so it would require running (and cleaning after) on every system.

I have noticed though that when package is synchronized with e.g. Copy.com software, symlinks (NTFS's junctions) get broken and functionality depending on them stops working. Therefore one needs to choose method of transfering the whole installation that would preserve them if he want to make use of its portability.

Usage

Details on how to use of added features and programs can be found here.

Libusb

If needed file can be found on sourceforge.

License

Scripts and my own configs are published with Apache 2.0 license. As such anyone can use them and modify to their needs. Configs being modifications are licensed like their originals.

Disclaimer

I am not an author of any of those software. This builder merely puts together several software pieces and add some initial configuration to it.

All credits goes to the authors of their respective product.

Used software

Software downloaded by script to put together a nice toolchain.

Conemu

Conemu - contains original Conemu software without any additional addons.

Cmder - portable installation of Conemu with preinstalled enhancements for CMD console.

Far manager - Total Commander like manager in a command line.

Cygwin

Cygwin - POSIX environment for Windows system. Contains many ported packages.

apt-cyg - script for Cygwin allowing package management in a apt-get like manner.

depot_tools

depot_tools - scripts useful when working with Google code.

GYP - Chromium's builder.

Java JRE and JDK

Java - Oracle's Java platform and development kit.

Gradle - build system (mainly) for Java.

SBT - Simple Build Tool written in Scala.

Clojure

Clojure - Clojure programming language.

Leiningen - builder for Clojure applications.

Node.js

Node.js - JS development platform.

Python

Python - Python programming language.

Ruby

Ruby - Ruby programming language.

Atom

Atom - Atom text editor.

LightTable

LightTable - LightTable Clojure IDE.

NightCode

Nightcode - Nightcode Clojure IDE.

Sublime Text

Sublime Text - Sublime Text 3 text editor.

Apt-Cyg

apt-cyg - apt-get like manager for Cygwin.

CLOC

CLOC - Count Lines of Code.