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-@echo off
-REM Double click on this file to use it. 
-REM It will launch a Cygwin shell with the needed Visual Studio 2015 environment variables set
-REM Used to run the automated build / release scripts that are written in Perl/Python
-
-CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
-
-C:
-chdir C:\cygwin64\bin
-bash --login -i