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Description
1) install mingw
2) checkout trunk (or karaf-2.1.x)
3) mvn clean install
4) tar xvvf apache-karaf-xxx.tar.gz
5) mv apache-karaf-xxx.tar.gz apache\ karaf
6) cd apache\ karaf/bin
7) ./karaf (this will throw exceptions because of class not found, directory not found ...)
Solution
apply attached patch and start from 3 again (should work now). I've tested it with my linux installation and it works there. Can someone with cygwin give this a shot?