connecting to mysql from cygwin

Question

I can successfully connect to MySQL from a DOS prompt, but when I try to connect from cygwin, it just hangs.

$/cygdrive/c/Program\\ Files/MySQL/MySQL\\ Serve         


        

Answer 1

Run bash from the cmd.exe executable and then mysql will work inside bash.

1. Create a shortcut for cmd.exe on your desktop.
2. Open up the properties for the shortcut and change the startup directory to the cygwin bin directory (usually C:\cygwin\bin).
3. Add "/c bash.exe" to the end of the command in the target parameter.

This will run bash under the windows cmd.exe environment and when you attempt to run mysql it will execute as you would expect. This is working under windows 7 but has not been tested in any other version.

Answer 2

Althoug Svend Hansen answer has some points, another thing is the PATH in Environment variables - if the path to mysql is before that of cygwin

which mysql

will show

/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/bin/mysql

otherwise it will show the cygwin client.

As reference Wikipedia says:

Some programs may add their directory to the front of the PATH variable's content during installation, to speed up the search process and/or override OS commands.

Answer 3

Disclaimer: The following solved this issue for me under MinTTY on MinGW/MSYS. From research, I believe this same root cause affects Cygwin as well.

Answer is posted here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23164362/1034436

In a nutshell, you'll need to prepend your mysql command with winpty's console.exe (or have aliases that does so). This solution worked with native Windows MySQL executables and not a special cygwin/mingw build. You do, however, have to compile winpty, but that was simple and painless, and worked as per their documentation for me.

Note: This also solved my issue with several other native Windows console applications, namely Python and Mercurial with OpenSSH.

Answer 4

1. Download Cygwin

2. Install mysql client app

3. create an alias in .bashrc file

   alias mysql='mysql -h 127.0.0.1'

4. execute source .bashrc

Now you can connect to mysql

mysql -u user -p

Answer 5

Other answers lack the following key detail:

Cygwin has two shells:

1. Default: c:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe
2. Basic: c:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat (which launches c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe)

The Win32 MySQL can write properly to #2, but not #1, because Win32 MySQL cannot probe stdin properly (thanks @PeterNore)

Want to know if you're using Win32 MySQL? Use which, e.g.

$ which mysql
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.1/bin/mysql

Bonus: Cygwin guide to overcoming path problems (thanks @Dustin)

Answer 6

Do This:

1. just copy ur mysql.exe from C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin
2. paste this mysql.exe in C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
3. now run which mysql, It will