I am doing exactly the same thing as you want. I believe your problem is in keeping your worlds (Windows/Cygwin) straight. It appears that you have installed minimals “inside” cygwin (depending on whether your /usr directory is your cygwin /usr directory).

I installed minimals “normally”, as it is a Windows application. I ran the context setups from Windows. Then I can build with no problems from within cygwin by running the minimals cmd files (although you must specify the extension from within cygwin). I did not have to modify any files at all.

So far, no problems. Just remember to keep your path information in “Windows” format, not cygwin.

-Bryant

From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Chen Shen
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:03 AM
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Subject: [NTG-context] possible to run minimal in cygwin?

Hi all,

I wonder if it possible to run the MSWin version of context-minimal under Cygwin.

I want to use Makefile and other unix tools to automate my build process.

I tried modifying the context/tex/setuptex script, and manually set the platform variable to mswin,

but when I ran context.cmd, I saw the following error message. The texmf-cache path actually exists.

Any hint? Thanks a lot!

======begin cut===========

[Administrator@cygwin test]$ context.cmd test1

Should I create the cache path /cygdrive/c/usr/docs/context/tex/texmf-cache? [ye

s|no] [no]

Should I create the cache path /cygdrive/c/usr/docs/context/tex/texmf-cache? [ye

s|no] [no]

MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'

======end cut===========

regards,

shenchen