
What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?
Apr 21, 2009 · What is Cygwin? Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix …
Defining aliases in Cygwin under Windows - Stack Overflow
Mar 26, 2013 · Cygwin's /etc/passwd file (normally C:\Cygwin\etc\passwd from Windows). This will have a number of lines containing details of each user on the system; the seventh : …
How do I install cygwin components from the command line?
Feb 13, 2012 · Is there a tool in the Cygwin package similar to apt-get on Debian or yum on redhat that allows me to install components from the command line?
Where can I download an offline installer of Cygwin?
Mar 19, 2009 · I need an offline installer with most of the utilities commonly needed. Somehow the default installer confuses me with all its package selection. I installed Cygwin but I can't find …
updates - How to install new packages on Cygwin? - Super User
I installed the latest version of Cygwin with a number of packages. I soon realised that I need more packages (such as wget, etc) and I couldn't find a way to install the new packages …
Running a shell script through Cygwin on Windows
Apr 1, 2013 · Sure. On my (pretty vanilla) Cygwin setup, bash is in c:\cygwin\bin so I can run a bash script (say testit.sh) from a Windows batch file using a command like: C:\cygwin\bin\bash …
What is the current full install size of Cygwin? - Stack Overflow
Jan 20, 2014 · Every source I found online says a full installation of Cygwin takes over 1 GB, but mine is only 100 MB. I was pretty sure I downloaded everything from …
Best terminal environment for Cygwin/Windows? - Stack Overflow
Mar 31, 2009 · The unicode replacement for rxvt in Cygwin is urxvt, the package name under Cygwin is rxvt-unicode-X. urxvt also has other nice features, such as many downloadable …
How to completely uninstall/remove cygwin from Windows 7
Jul 24, 2010 · How can I completely uninstall/remove cygwin? I don't think it is as simple as deleting C:\\cygwin. Maybe alter registry?
How to install Python2.7 on Cygwin? - Stack Overflow
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