How to integrate Django and Cygwin?

Question

I have a Windows box with cygwin, python and django installed.

Now I want to run django-admin, but when I do I get the error:

$ django-admin.py
c:\\Pytho         


        

Answer 1

Add the location of your django/bin folder (or wherever else you keep django-admin.py) to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Answer 2

From here

For Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you can copy django-admin.py to a location on your existing path or edit the PATH settings (under Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment...) to point to its installed location.

hope this helps

Answer 3

Add two lines to .bash_profile and .bashrc files (view their difference here). You can find them in C:\cygwin\home\[username]:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/python2.7
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/cygdrive/c/python2.7/Lib/site-packages

Hope this helps