Cygwin Installation

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What is Cygwin?

Cygwin offers a UNIX like environment on top of MS-Windows.

Gives the ability to use familiar UNIX tools without losing access to “typical” MS-Windows programs

Installing and Updating Cygwin Run setup.exe any time you want to update or

install a Cygwin package. Note that, when installing packages for the

first time, setup.exe does not install every package.

Clicking on categories and packages in the setup.exe package installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated.

Installing and Updating Cygwin: step by step

Step 1: Download Cygwin installer from www.cygwin.com and run it.

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 2: Select “Install from Internet”:

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 3: Install to default location

If your OS is Vista, chose this option

If your OS is Windows 7, chose this option

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 4: Use default local package directory (click next)

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 5: Use whatever internet connection settings (click next)

Installing and Updating Cygwin

To save your download time, please choose the one nearest to you!

Check : http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html to know the nearest mirror of you.

Try:

Step 6: Select a mirror (click next)

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 6: Select a mirror (click next)

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 7: In this step you have to select the packages to be

installed, first : expand “Devel”: Note: If the check boxes are not visible , click on

“Default” to change it to “install”. Now the check boxes should appear

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 8: Expand “Devel” and select the

following packages : gcc-obj: GNU compiler Collection (Objective C) make: the GNU version of the ‘make’ utility.Expand “Prel” and select : Perl-ExtUtils-Depends : Buid perl XS that

depend on other XS. Perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig: perl module for using

pakage config. Expand “System” and select : ProcPs: Utilities for monitoring your system

and processes on your system.

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 9: Expand the “Editors”:

Installing and Updating Cygwin

Step 10: Select the following package from “Editor”:nano: a pico clone text editor with extensions.

Step 11: Click Next to complete the installation.

If it asks you to download some other packages for dependencies, click yes.

Note that the installation may take a while to complete

Resources

www.cygwin.comhttp://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece2 2/cygwin.htmlhttp://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~jng/comp1180/CygwinSetup.pdf