For all Cygwin-related questions, observations, suggestions and bug reports, please check the resources available at this site, such as the FAQ, the User's Guide and the mailing list archives.

Once you've installed your desired subset of the Cygwin distribution, the setup program will remember what you selected, so re-running it will update your system with any new package …

What is it? Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a DLL (cygwin1.dll), which acts as an emulation layer providing substantial POSIX (Portable Operating System …

To install a basic Cygwin environment, run the Cygwin Setup program from the Cygwin homepage and click Next at each page. The default settings are correct for most users.

I read the above but I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin installed by the user?

Cygwin User's Guide The Cygwin User's Guide is now available in several formats: Several HTML files, with Table of Contents One large compressed HTML file One PDF file Alternatively, you …

We have some preliminary docs on how to profile the Cygwin DLL. Information on building and using DLLs is here. Also note that there is quite a lot of useful information in the project mailing …

Cygwin has a nice setup program that downloads and installs the necessary Cygwin packages for you.

Programming with Cygwin Using GCC with Cygwin Standard Usage Building applications for 64 bit Cygwin GUI Mode Applications Debugging Cygwin Programs Building and Using DLLs …

To install the Cygwin net release, go to https://cygwin.com/ and run setup-x86_64.exe to install the 64 bit version of Cygwin. This will download a GUI installer which can be run to download …