bc basic calculator is missing

[GregTonoski]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  64-bit

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.37.2.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: c5597badf94101f0076e6667edee120ab1ee5bac
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  11 64-bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4037]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?
  Yes, defaults.

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: Notepad++
Custom Editor Path:
Default Branch Option:
Path Option: BashOnly
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Bash.

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

bc

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

bc basic calculator to start

• What actually happened instead?

Error message that bc is not found.

Would you add bc-gh (https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc) , please? It seems that there is RPN calculator available only: /usr/bin/mpicalc.exe (unlike busybox, MinGW, MacOS and nearly all other systems which include bc).

[rimrul]

I don't really see why we would ship bc (or mpicalc for that matter).

[dscho]

The purpose of Git for Windows is really to bring Git to Windows.

While that implies that we have to ship quite a few Unix-like tools, it does not mean that we will include such tools unless they are needed for Git's own operations, or at least for historical reasons (needs of active contributors are sometimes a factor in deciding whether to include a tool or not).

Having said that, what you really are looking for is MSYS2. Git for Windows leverages MSYS2 and ships with a subset of its files. MSYS2 even sports a package management system called "pacman" to install more tools (including Git...), so why don't you give it a whirl?