How to make emacs respect non-exe executables on windows?

Question

I've installed flake8 for flycheck to use to check my python syntax. I installed flake8 in cygwin, using the python interpreter shipped with cygwin, which results in a flake8 file in C:\cygwin64\bin. The problem is, emacs seems to only respect exe files so if I (executable-find "flake8") it yields nil. I had the same problem when I enabled anaconda-mode, since cygwin has python2.7.exe and python in C:\cygwin64\bin. I solved this by copy python2.7.exe to python.exe, but the flake8 problem can't be solved this way.

I vim /usr/bin/flake8d, turns out it's really flake.py with python code inside to run with python.

tl;dr: Generally the question is: How to make emacs aware of "excutables" that would normally run by python flake8.py, node eslint.js? (When I used eslint with flycheck for js-file syntax check, it just works, maybe there's the solution?)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Solution: cp path/to/eslint.cmd /usr/bin/flake8.cmd, then vim flake8.cmd, edit exe and script names inside.

How I found that: I gave a second thought to "why eslint just works?" Because it's eslint.js? I changed flake8 to flake8.py, no luck. Thanks to everything, I typed eslint. in the search bar, and eslint.cmd stood out. Then I cloned it to flake8.cmd and problem's solved. I tried in both cygwin and dos terminals, flake8 can be invoked just like a command/exe. So I guess for everyone under Windows, the definition for "executable" is the same: .exes and .cmds (and some others).