mingw64 coconut cmd hangs

[marawuti]

I've installed coconut via pip on my mingw64 running under Windows 10.

@@ 508 > coconut -v
Version 1.2.0 [Colonel] running on Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 7 2016,
14:06:02) [GCC 6.2.0 64 bit (AMD64)]

but
@@ 509 > coconut

hangs.

What debugging approach can I use to provide useful data?

[evhub]

@marawuti Can you try passing the --verbose flag, and see if you get any output then? If that doesn't work, try installing the current develop version instead of the current release version using pip install coconut-develop, then paste in both the install log and the result of running coconut --verbose after the installation finishes.

[evhub]

This error was being caused by the same issue in these stack overflow threads regarding Python on CygWin:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13588454/invoking-python-under-cygwin-on-windows-hangs
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3250749/using-windows-python-from-cygwin

However, I have added a workaround that should hopefully help alleviate the problem, even if none of the solutions in those threads is taken.

For future reference, the best, easiest solution seemed to be to run cygstart coconut instead of just coconut.