Feb 13, 2012 · If you have cygwin installed via chocolatey, you could use special alternative sources: choco install -y packagename1 packagename2 packagename3 --source=cygwin Alternative Source - Cygwin This specifies the source is Cygwin and that we are installing a cygwin package, such as bash.

Mar 19, 2009 · Method 2: make an offline install zip file for cygwin. Don't mess with saving packages because the installed directory for cygwin can be canned in a zip file and expanded whenever you need it on any computer. Download Cygwin installer. pick packages you want installed from gui. hit install and wait a really long time for everything to download.

Aug 30, 2008 · gcc under cygwin does not generate a Linux executable output file of type " ELF 32-bit LSB executable," but it generates a windows executable of type "PE32 executable for MS Windows" which has a dependency on cygwin1.dll, so it needs to be run under cygwin shell.

The other possibility is to install the 32-bit and/or 64-bit toolchains from the MinGW-w64 project, which have been packaged for Cygwin very recently and hence are available through setup.exe now. Don't be put off by the rather confusing executable names: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc is the 32-bit compiler and x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc is the 64-bit one.

Feb 21, 2012 · Yes, you do. Check the packagelist in the cygwin setup.exe, and pick all the svn-like packages then install them. For typical usage such as update, commit, show history it's almost perfect. UPDATE (not to steal credit but apparently an important addition) The package "subversion" should be installed as well.

I installed cygwin using Chocolatey, and since Chocolatey is installing using quiet/silent mode, you are not asked to select any packages and cygwin is installed with bare minimum packages :-(. However, every time you wish to install a new package it is really-really, easy just use: --source=cygwin. For example, installing bash:

MSYS2 just calls cygwin.dll something else. It works the same Cygwin does. Your code is more likely to work with Cygwin than MSYS2. MSYS2 is really isn't meant to create MSYS2 programs other than those that are part of MSYS2. MSYS2 mainly meant to create Windows "native" programs using Unix-like tools.

Mar 16, 2017 · How can I programmatically determine the current Cygwin user's home directory in Windows format (e.g. C:\\cygwin\\home\\user) so I can read from it outside of Cygwin Bash?

Nov 10, 2017 · In dialog "Cygwin Setup - Choose Installation Directory" you should select root directory in wich CygWin has been installed & press Next, and again, and again & again. Your will see dialog "Cygwin Setup - Select Package", in the "View" combobox you should select "Full", and in the "Search" edit you should enter "gcc".

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 : separated field is the home directory. You can tell which user it's looking at by running whoami from a Cygwin bash shell.