Feb 13, 2012 · If you have cygwin installed via chocolatey, you could use special alternative sources: choco install -y packagename1 packagename2 packagename3 --source=cygwin Alternative Source - Cygwin This specifies the source is Cygwin and that we are installing a cygwin package, such as bash.

Aug 7, 2011 · I used to run a MAC and only just started using windows (win 7) because work gave me a free laptop. Anyways...I installed cygwin, added the gcc-c++ compiler, gdb and make packages to my cygwin. But when i run the command ./file ./data it comes up with: bash: ./file: cannot execute binary file

Aug 30, 2008 · gcc under cygwin does not generate a Linux executable output file of type " ELF 32-bit LSB executable," but it generates a windows executable of type "PE32 executable for MS Windows" which has a dependency on cygwin1.dll, so it needs to be run under cygwin shell.

Mar 26, 2013 · C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - Instead you can create a batchfile with the following content and start that: @echo off set HOME= start C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - That will start a a Cygwin windows whose home directory settings are not overridden by a Windows environment variable.

Mar 19, 2009 · Method 2: make an offline install zip file for cygwin. Don't mess with saving packages because the installed directory for cygwin can be canned in a zip file and expanded whenever you need it on any computer. Download Cygwin installer. pick packages you want installed from gui. hit install and wait a really long time for everything to download.

Sep 4, 2012 · The real problem is that when you run a command in any of the Cygwin terminal programs like mintty, they don't act as Windows Consoles. Only Windows Console-based ones like CMD or Console2 do that. So, with Cygwin terminals the Windows python.exe doesn't think it is talking to an interactive console.

I installed cygwin using Chocolatey, and since Chocolatey is installing using quiet/silent mode, you are not asked to select any packages and cygwin is installed with bare minimum packages :-(. However, every time you wish to install a new package it is really-really, easy just use: --source=cygwin. For example, installing bash:

Sep 16, 2015 · 1. download cygwin 2. on the "Select Packages" page, select "Category" from the View (on top left) 3. mark "Devel" to "Install" (you will change the "Default" to "Install" 4. mark "Python" to "Install" 5. from "Web" select "wget" 6. from "Net" select "Openssh" 7. progress to install the packages with "Next" 8. go to the destination folder where ...

Nov 25, 2016 · It has both the mingw and cygwin fork package. To install the MinGW-w64 toolchain : Open the MSYS2 shell from the start menu; Run pacman -Sy pacman to update the package database; Reopen the shell, and run pacman -Syu to update the package database and core system packages; Reopen the shell, and run pacman -Su to update the rest; Install the ...

Mar 16, 2017 · How can I programmatically determine the current Cygwin user's home directory in Windows format (e.g. C:\\cygwin\\home\\user) so I can read from it outside of Cygwin Bash?