No colors when running native windows shell application from mintty

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Published on 2010-09-03T09:15:09Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 9:55 UTC
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Hi.

I have installed cygwin (i'm not very experienced with it), and try to run a native windows shell application from it, (msbuild.exe which is the build tool for the .NET framework, to be exact).

When I run the application from the normal cygwin bash shell, the output of the application appear as it should with the text colors that I would normally see in the windows command line.

But when I execute the program from a mintty terminal, there is no coloring of the output, all text is in the default foreground color. I'm puzzled, because I would have expected the color coding to be the standard ANSI color code escape characters...

Can this be fixed?

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