Chapter 2. Setting Up Cygwin
2.1. Cygwin Contents
The following packages are included in the full release:
Development tools: binutils, bison, byacc, dejagnu, diff, expect, flex, gas, gcc, gdb, itcl, ld, libstdc++, make, patch, tcl, tix, tk
User tools: ash, bash, bzip2, diff, fileutils, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, less, m4, sed, shellutils, tar, textutils, time
The user tools release only contains the user tools.
Full source code is available for these tools.
2.2. Installing the binary release
Important! Be sure to remove any older versions of the Cygwin tools from your PATH environment variable so you do not execute them by mistake.
Connect to one of the ftp servers listed in http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/mirrors.html and cd to the directory containing the latest release.
If you want the development tools and the programs necessary to run the GNU configure mechanism, you should download the full binary release called full.exe
. If you only care about the user tools listed above, download usertools.exe
instead.
If you have an unreliable connection, download the appropriate binary in smaller chunks instead. For the split full installer, get the files in the ‘full-split’ subdirectory.
Once downloaded, combine the split files at the command prompt by doing a:
C:\Cygnus\> copy /b xaa + xab + xac + ... + xak + xal full.exe
C:\Cygnus\> del xa*.*
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