Cygwin full installer download

Download will start automatically after clicking on one of the blue executable setup links. Open the executable Cygwin setup file. Run the set-up as normal. Click on Next on the Cygwin Setup screen. When choosing Installation Type, select Install from Internet default. Click Next. When choosing the Installation Directory, you can leave the root directory by default, which will be C:cygwin64 64 bit. Install for all users. The Local Package Directory contains the setup installation files for packages that you wish Cygwin to have.

Underneath Select Local Package Directory, the default is the directory where you have the setup executable. Click next. From here, you can search for packages that you wish Cygwin to have. The ones that I recommend are:. For each of these packages, they belong to categories. Search for a package.

Click on the circle twirl with the arrows to select the most up-to-date version of that package. The -c option checks the version and status of installed Cygwin packages. If you specify one or more package names, cygcheck will limit its output to those packages, or with no arguments it lists all packages. A package will be marked Incomplete if files originally installed are no longer present. There is no package management in Cygwin outside of the setup program.

The setup only applies updates to your current installation, it does not overwrite packages that what you already have unless you have explicitly said so. So rerun the setup program to install new packages. The Cygwin mailing lists are the places for all questions. I mean it. Address space is a very limiting factor for Cygwin. These days, a full 32 bit Cygwin distro is not feasible anymore, and will in all likelihood fail in random places due to an issue with the fork 2 system call.

Therefore we recommend using 32 bit Cygwin only in limited scenarios, with only a minimum of necessary packages installed, and only if there's no way to run 64 bit Cygwin instead. You have been warned. Run setup-x The signature for setup-x Installing and Updating Cygwin for bit versions of Windows. Download the Cygwin installer and run setup. Click Next through the defaults and select mirror for downloading packages.

Search for each package, open the appropriate category Net or PHP , and click Skip next to each package. The total size is about 5. Both of these are stored in separate directories, so assuming you keep the compressed, downloaded packages this takes a total disk space of about 22 GB. Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-lineinterface for Microsoft Windows.

Its core is the cygwin1. It can be used as a buildenvironment which targets Windows directly and for which output doesn't dependon cygwin1.