Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. What packages should I install with Cygwin to make it not bloated but also have everything I would need as a developer? Asked 12 years, 10 months ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 53k times.
Improve this question. Thomas Owens Thomas Owens k 94 94 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Within this window, just as in a Cygwin terminal window, you are running the GNU bash shell. An important difference is that you can launch other X clients from an xterm without additional preparation. You can access xterm 's menus by pressing and holding the Ctrl key while clicking the left, middle, or right mouse buttons.
Use these menus to enable the scrollbar as shown in the screen shot above or to change the character size, among other possibilities. While the X server is running, its icon "X" appears in the Windows system tray see above.
You can click on this icon to force the X server to exit, but doing so will also force any X clients to exit; normally you should exit from all X clients before stopping the server. The environment is so Unix-like that it's easy to forget that it is all running under MS-Windows. The Cygwin project documentation highlights the important differences between Cygwin and other Unix -like environments.
Those who are new to Unix may find the additional resources listed below to be helpful while they are becoming familiar with the Unix way of doing things, which is quite different from the MS-Windows model. The final section tutorial 8 describes features of csh , an alternative to bash. The Linux Terminal - a Beginner's Bash. This clearly written guide from the Malta Linux Users' Group covers some of the same material as the previous resource, and fills in the gaps with discussion of the bash shell.
For example, type " mkdir --help " at a bash prompt to get a usage summary for the mkdir command. Usage summaries are usually very brief and are most useful to help recall information you have learned from some other source. These are the standard, almost universally available, cryptically concise, on-line reference documents for Unix programs.
Type " man program " at a bash prompt to see the man page for program. McGill University maintains a gentle introduction to reading man pages this seems to be off-line as of early ; another introduction to man pages is here.
Google is your friend! One of the most efficient ways to get help with common Unix questions is by using the name of a command or the text of an error message as a Google search term. Cygwin mailing lists and unofficial newsgroups can also be useful sources of information. Questions and Comments. If you would like help understanding, using, or downloading content, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
If you have any comments, feedback, or particular questions regarding this page, please send them to the webmaster. Comments and issues can also be raised on PhysioNet's GitHub page. We welcome your feedback. Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading Cygwin, you need to choose at least one mirror site. You can select multiple mirrors by holding down CTRL and clicking on each one.
If you have the URL of an unlisted mirror for example, if your organization has an internal Cygwin mirror you can add it. For each selected mirror site, setup. For details about the format of this file, see the setup. The chooser is the most complex part of setup. Packages are grouped into categories, and one package may belong to multiple categories assigned by the volunteer package maintainer. Each package can be found under any of those categories in the hierarchical chooser view.
By default, setup. However, this will not include many commonly used tools such as gcc which you will find in the Devel category. Since setup. In particular, everything in the Base category is required.
You can change setup. Click on the View button and it will rotate between Category the default , Full all packages , and Pending only packages to be installed, removed or upgraded. If you are familiar with Unix, you will probably want to at least glance through the Full listing for your favorite tools. Once you have an existing Cygwin installation, the setup.
If setup. To Uninstall , Reinstall , or get the Source for an existing package, click on Keep to toggle it. Also, to avoid the need to reboot after upgrading, make sure to close all Cygwin windows and stop all Cygwin processes before setup. To avoid unintentionally upgrading, use the Pending view to see which packages have been marked for upgrading. Why Need Cygwin? Cygwin applications are native Windows applications.
So they can easily access the same files and directories as any other Windows application. Cygwin allow you to run the binaries natively without the overhead of Linux VM.
You can run Gnome terminal and xterm with Cygwin. You don't need to ssh to VM or even worse switch to VM window. Cons of Cygwin You will need to tweak Cygwin to get a better user experience and the updates are terrible. Behavior may not be exactly the same as Linux. You will need to recompile each Linux application as Cygwin applications. Linux tools that depend on the Linux kernel cannot be recompiled as Cygwin applications.
You should see the following page: Click on the Run button. You should see the Cygwin installation page: Click on the Next button to start the installation. You should see the following page: Select your root directory or leave it default and click on the Next button. You should see the following page: Select your local package directory and click on the Next button.
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