Fixes issues with Cygwin

Path of the profile and of the application.ini were not
in the good format.
there was also an issue with the --envs parameter.

Closes laurentj#4

docs/installation.rst

@@ -5,8 +5,17 @@
 Installation
 ============
 
-SlimerJS runs on any platform on which Firefox or XulRunner is available. XulRunner
-is the core of Firefox without its user interface.
+Requirements
+------------
+
+SlimerJS runs on any platform on which Firefox or XulRunner is available: Linux (32bits and 64bits),
+Windows, MacOs X. XulRunner is the core of Firefox without its user interface.
+
+On windows, you should open a terminal. You can use the classical cmd.exe, or the recent PowerShell.exe.
+You can also install `Cygwin <http://www.cygwin.com/>`_ and use its terminal.
+
+You cannot use the MingW32 environment on Windows because there are some issues with
+(no output in the console, and it lacks on some commands like mktemp).
 
 Installation of SlimerJS
 ------------------------

src/README.md

@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ Go to [http://slimerjs.org] to know more and to access to the documentation
 - [Download the latest package](http://download.slimerjs.org/slimerjs-0.5RC1.zip) or
   [the source code of SlimerJS](https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/archive/master.zip) if you didn't it yet
 - On windows, a .bat is provided, but you can also launch slimer from a "true" console. In this case, you should install
-  [Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or any other unix environment to launch slimerjs. Note
-  that some issues are known with Cygwin.
+  [Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or any other unix environment to launch slimerjs.
 - SlimerJS needs to know where Firefox or XulRunner is stored. It tries to discover
   itself the path but can fail. You must then set the environment variable
   SLIMERJSLAUNCHER, which should contain the full path to the firefox binary:

src/components/commandline.js

@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ slCommandLine.prototype = {
             dump("error cache service:"+ ex+"\n");
         }
 
-        slConfiguration.setEnvNames(cmdLine.handleFlagWithParam("envs", false).split(/,/));
+        if (envService.exists('__SLIMER_ENV')) {
+            let envs = envService.get('__SLIMER_ENV');
+            slConfiguration.setEnvNames(envs.split(/,/));
+        }
 
         slConfiguration.workingDirectory = cmdLine.workingDirectory;
 
@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ slCommandLine.prototype = {
                 }
             }
             else {
+
                 slConfiguration.scriptFile = cmdLine.resolveFile(slConfiguration.args[0]);
             }
             if (!slConfiguration.scriptFile.exists())

src/slimerjs

@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symli
 done
 SLIMERDIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
 
+SYSTEM=`uname -o`
+if [ "$SYSTEM" == "Cygwin" ]
+then
+   IN_CYGWIN=1
+   SLIMERDIR=`cygpath -w $SLIMERDIR`
+else
+   IN_CYGWIN=
+fi
+
 # retrieve the path of a gecko launcher
 if [ "$SLIMERJSLAUNCHER" == "" ]
 then
@@ -136,6 +145,9 @@ then
         echo "Error: cannot generate temp profile"
         exit 1
     fi
+    if [ "$IN_CYGWIN" == 1 ]; then
+        PROFILE_DIR=`cygpath -w $PROFILE_DIR`
+    fi
     PROFILE="--profile $PROFILE_DIR"
 else
     PROFILE="-purgecaches"
@@ -144,9 +156,10 @@ fi
 # put all arguments in a variable, to have original arguments before their transformation
 # by Mozilla
 export __SLIMER_ARGS="$@"
+export __SLIMER_ENV="$LISTVAR"
 
 # launch slimerjs with firefox/xulrunner
-"$SLIMERJSLAUNCHER" -app $SLIMERDIR/application.ini $PROFILE -no-remote --envs "$LISTVAR" "$@"
+"$SLIMERJSLAUNCHER" -app $SLIMERDIR/application.ini $PROFILE -no-remote "$@"
 
 EXITCODE=$?