msys not flushing output

Question

I\'m using mingw with msys and mintty on windows. I have a problem that msys and mintty are somehow not flushing output until a command is finished. This means I can\'t real

Answer 1

This can be an issue when msys uses the rxvt shell under a number of scenarios. In cases where I see this problem, I ask msys to use the native Windows shell for its console. For example:

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat --no-rxvt

I thought that modern MSYS installations default to using the native shell as MSYS developers seem to prefer it. I have other issues with the native shell that drive me to use the rxvt shell, so I do infrequently run into this issue.

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat --rxvt

I find that the rxvt shell usually works fine except for certain applications that are built as "console" utilities meant to run from a command-line.