The default Install Root is c:\cygwin which should be fine for most installations. A listing of the Cygwin/X packages is given below.Click the 'Install Cygwin Now' link in the upper-right hand corner of the page. Cygwin/X packages are located in the X11 category. xorg-server (required. An Introduction to Cygwin. George B. Moody. Harvard- MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Revised 7 November 2. This page has been translated into Serbo- Croatian. What is Cygwin? Cygwin is free. Unix- like environment and software tool set. MS- Windows. (XP with SP3/Server 2.
Vista/7/8) and (using older versions of. Cygwin) some obsolete versions (9. ME/NT/2. 00. 0/XP without SP3) as. Cygwin consists of a Unix system call emulation. GNU and other free software applications organized into a large number. Among these packages are high- quality compilers. X1. 1 server, a complete X1. GNU emacs, Te. X and La. Te. X, Open. SSH (client and. Physio. Toolkit software under MS- Windows. Cygwin does not provide a means for running GNU/Linux or other Unix. MS- Windows. In order to run such software using. Cygwin, that software must be compiled from its sources. Cygwin provides. all of the components needed to do this in most cases; most POSIX- compliant. X1. 1 applications, can easily be ported to MS- Windows. This page is provided as a service to help Physio. Net users and others get. Cygwin. Physio. Net and the author are unaffiliated with the. Cygwin project and cannot assist users in installing and using Cygwin. For. general assistance on Cygwin beyond what is included here, please use the resources listed at the end of the page. Installing Cygwin. Overview. Installing Cygwin begins with downloading and running the Cygwin. Cygwin root directory (where Cygwin will be installed on your system) which of the many Cygwin mirrors you will use while downloading which optional Cygwin packages should be installedas well as a few other installation options. Cygwin packages consist of. The installer downloads. MD5 sums, and then unpacks them into the root. If you have at least 3. Gb free disk space (roughly half of which can be. Cygwin with all of its optional packages. This choice is. recommended for those who prefer to work in a Unix or GNU/Linux environment but. MS- Windows. A full installation provides a. GNU/Linux distribution. Allow at least an hour to perform a full installation. Internet connection, more otherwise. If you wish only to compile and use existing software under MS- Windows, you may. Cygwin, consisting of the Base package. Gb, and proportionately less time than a full installation. A minimal. installation may be upgraded easily at a later time, by following the same. Packages that have previously been. When the installation is complete, the Cygwin root directory will resemble. Unix or GNU/Linux system, with subdirectories bin. DLLs), etc (configuration files), home. Windows user registered on your system). The. later sections of this page (Using Cygwin and. Using Cygwin/X) describe how to access the software. Prerequisites. Make sure that you are using a version of Windows supported by Cygwin, and. If your Windows login name contains a space character, consider changing it. Cygwin. The Cygwin installer. Windows login name. It is usually. possible to work around problems caused by directory or file names that. Some virus scanners may interfere with Cygwin installation. If you. encounter problems, consider disabling your virus scanner during. Cygwin installation and re- enabling it afterwards. Cygwin 1. 5. x vs. Cygwin 1. 7. x. Cygwin 1. December 2. 00. 9. The. installation procedure for Cygwin 1. Cygwin 1. 5. MS- Windows 9. ME are. incompatible with Cygwin 1. Windows, install Cygwin 1. Cygwin Legacy for instructions and download links). In- between versions (NT, 2. XP without SP3) are compatible with. Cygwin project or the Cygwin Legacy project. Running the Cygwin installer. Click on the "Install Cygwin- 3. Cygwin web site). Save the link (setup- x. If you prefer, you may install Cygwin- 6. Cygwin web site. Note that XView- based software from Physio. Toolkit, including. WAVE, cannot be compiled on Windows using 6. Cygwin, since several required. DLLs are available in 3. A window titled User Account Control may appear, with the question. Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher. Program name: setup. Publisher: Unknown. File origin: Downloaded from the Internet. If this happens, click "Yes" to continue. A window titled Cygwin Net Release Setup Program appears. Click Next to get started. Choose A Download Source: Accept the default ("Install from. Internet") and click Next. Choosing the default "Install from Internet" causes the files you. The other choices allow you to perform this procedure. Select Root Install Directory: Accept the defaults ("C: /cygwin". All Users, Unix) and click Next. Important: The default root directory for Cygwin applications. C: /cygwin. Change it if you wish (using '/' rather than '\'. All. files installed by the Cygwin installer go into this directory; to. Cygwin at a later date, simply remove this directory and all. If you are installing Cygwin 1. If you are installing Cygwin 1. Unix"). Select Local Package Directory: Accept the default. C: \Users\User\Desktop) or change it to any temporary. After the installation is complete, you may delete the . If you have chosen a full. If you plan to. install Cygwin on another PC, however, you may be able to save time. Cygwin installer to the second. PC; follow these instructions to install Cygwin on the second PC, but choose. Install from Local Directory" in step 3. Select Your Internet Connection: The default should be correct for. Change it only if you encounter problems. Choose A Download Site: Select a nearby mirror site from which to. Cygwin packages. Speeds may vary considerably from site to site. At this time, the installer downloads a list of available packages from the. Normally, this takes only a few seconds; if there is. Select Packages: If you wish to do a full installation. All" (at the top of the Category. Default" to "Install". Click Next and skip ahead to step 1. If you wish to do a custom installation, click the View. Category" to "Full". If you are installing Cygwin 1. To select a package for installation, click on its rotating selector (in the. New column) to cycle through the available choices until a version. In most cases, you should choose the highest version number. In the example below, the sunrpc package, version 4. Note that the entry in the Bin? Binary). column changes from n/a to a checked box when you select a numbered version of. Leave this box checked. The entry in the Src? Source). column changes from n/a to an unchecked box, which you may check if you would. If you plan to use Physio. Toolkit software, be sure to choose at least the. Image. Magick (Graphics)bc (Math, Utils)curl (Net, Web)cygutils- extra (Utils)diffutils (Utils)gcc (Devel)gcc- fortran (Devel)gv (Graphics, Text, X1. X1. 1- devel (X1. Devel, Net, Web; curl- devel in Cygwin 1. X1. 1)make (Devel)mingw- gcc (Devel; gcc- mingw in Cygwin 1. X1. 1)In addition, if you are installing a 3. Cygwin, choose these. XView- based software such as WAVE: X- start- menu- icons (X1. X1. 1). (These packages are not available for 6. Cygwin, and, as noted. Cygwin to build or run WAVE or other. XView- based software.). The categories to which each package belongs are shown following the. You may choose any other desired. Cygwin setup. again). The Cygwin installer will automatically download any. When you have completed your selections. Next. On Cygwin 1. Resolving Dependencies"). At the bottom of the window, be sure that "Select required. RECOMMENDED)" is checked, then click Next. The downloading process begins once the packages have been selected. The installer indicates its progress. Be patient; the downloading and installation process may take an hour or more. Internet connection, but also on the. Cygwin mirror site from which you are downloading). Once all selected package files have been downloaded and checked, they are. Cygwin root install directory. Following package installation, any installation- dependent configuration. There may be lengthy pauses. Be patient!)A window titled Postinstall script errors may appear after all of the. If so, it contains an explanatory note. These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to function. The name of the file is /var/log/setup. Report any problems to the Cygwin project, not to Physio. Net! A list. of scripts that returned errors appears below the note. Click Next to continue. Create Icons: Unless these icons already exist from a previous. Cygwin installation, make sure the boxes are checked and click Finish. That's all! You may always run Cygwin setup again to obtain additional or updated packages. Cygwin applications first. Using Cygwin. As noted, Cygwin provides a Unix- like environment under Windows. The. installation directory (by default, c: \cygwin) is the root of. Unix- like file system, which contains bin, etc. GNU/Linux or other Unix system. Within home will be one or. Windows user. To begin, click on the Cygwin desktop icon, or choose the Cygwin entry from. Cygwin terminal window. Within this window, the. GNU bash shell is running, with POSIX syntax (directory separators. Initially, the current (working) directory is. Windows. login name. Don't use this directory if your Windows login name contains. HOME=/home/bob" > >. HOME=/home/bob" > >. Close your Cygwin terminal window and open another one; your current directory. See the. Cygwin FAQ (look for. My Windows logon name has a space in it") for other solutions to this common. Finding Cygwin files with Windows applications, and vice versa. Pathnames of files are often confusing to new Cygwin users. A pathname is. simply a set of directions for finding a file. An absolute pathname. The. confusion arises because native Windows programs use c: \ as their. Cygwin programs use c: \cygwin (unless you chose some other. Cygwin). This means, for example, that a file created using a Cygwin program as. Windows program as. If you need to use a Cygwin program to read or write a file located outside. For example, a native Windows file. My Documents\hello. Cygwin program at. My\ Documents/hello. My Documents" must be prefixed by "\" to force it to be treated as part.
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