Trouble getting get_iplayer.cgi to run under Cygwin

[Margate Sands]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:52 PM, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/11/2014 17:41, Margate Sands wrote:
>>
>> I have encountered a bit of a problem when I try to run
>> get_iplayer.cgi using Cygwin environment. So far I have:
>> ...
>> <filename>: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/get_iplayer.cgi line
>> 2341
>
>
> I guess nobody has been using Cygwin (including me).  A function in one of
> the Perl core modules behaves differently in Cygwin that it does in other
> unix-like systems.  Cwd::abs_path dies when it is fed a non-existent file
> instead of ignoring it. I've posted a patch to work around this issue:
>
> https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#githead
>
> Update both  get_iplayer and get_iplayer.cgi.  I've also patched the CLI to
> use the Cygwin home directory as the default parent for get_iplayer's
> profile directory, rather than the Windows home directory.  Bad things can
> happen if the Windows version of get_iplayer is also installed and the
> Cygwin version picks up its configuration.

Thank you. Everything works now as expected.

Best regards,
MS