Invoking shell scripts on Windows under MSYS using Command - path

Question

I am trying to invoke commands in Rust (1.0 beta 3) on Windows 7 in an MSYS2 environment, but I cannot understand how to do it.
Suppose that you have this very simple script called myls in your home folder:
#!/bin/bash
ls
And now create a simple program in Rust that calls the script:
use std::process::Command;
use std::path::Path;
fn main()
{
let path_linux_style = Path::new("~/myls").to_str().unwrap();
let path_win_style = Path::new("C:\\msys64\\home\\yourname\\myls").to_str().unwrap();
let out_linux = Command::new(path_linux_style).output();
let out_win = Command::new(path_win_style).output();
match out_linux
{
Ok(_) => println!("Linux path is working!"),
Err(e) => println!("Linux path is not working: {}", e)
}
match out_win
{
Ok(_) => println!("Win path is working!"),
Err(e) => println!("Win path is not working: {}", e)
}
}
Now, if you try to execute it, you will get the following output:
Linux path is not working: The system cannot find the file specified.
(os error 2)
Win path is not working: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
(os error 193)
So I am not able to invoke any command in MSYS environment.
How can I solve it?
EDIT:
I noticed that if I invoke an executable, the problem doesn't happen, so it seems to be related to invocation of bash script. Anyway, it's quite annoying since it makes compiling projects depending on external C/C++ code (that need to launch configure script) tricky to get to work.

Answer 1

The Windows example doesn't work because Windows isn't a Unix. On Unix-like systems, the #! at the beginning of a script is recognized, and it invokes the executable at the given path as the interpreter. Windows doesn't have this behavior; and even if it did, it wouldn't recognize the path name to the /bin/bash, as that path name is one that msys2 emulates, it is not a native path name.
Instead, you can explicitly execute the script you want using the msys2 shell, by doing something like the following (alter the path as appropriate, I have msys32 installed since it's a 32 bit VM)
let out_win = Command::new("C:\\msys32\\usr\\bin\\sh.exe")
.arg("-c")
.arg(path_win_style)
.output();