[FOP-2834] [PATCH] Support to launch fop command from the MSYS2/MINGW bash on Windows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: unqualified
• Labels: FOP MSYS
• Environment: Windows 7/10 with MSYS2 (www.msys2.org)
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gerrit Albrecht
• Created: 18/Dec/18 10:07
• Updated: 13/Mar/19 13:46

Description

When using the fop 2.3 binary download with a MSYS2 shell, the fop command in the main directory fails because it does not know anything about MSYS2. Same problem exists after running fop from a MINGW32/64 bash. The fop.bat worked out of the box but would need cmd.exe.

The patch (for fop 1.0) is from here: https://gist.github.com/lammermann/1307565

My patch enables MSYS2 too (MSYS2 uses different uname's for its shells) and targets version 2.3.

To test it you need a JAVA_HOME env variable which leads to a JRE (tested with jre1.8.0_192) and you have to add $JAVA_HOME/bin and fop-2.3/fop to the PATH variable.