
I have even less experience with MinGW than with Cygwin.

Installing Cygwin and FontForge for Windows.) (Zoltan Hawryluk posted detailed instructions for
#Mingw cygwin how to
There are good instructions there for how to tell Packages available from the Cygwin Ports project. In addition to the packages available by default, there are also many (e.g., C:\cygwin\bin\) run ash (a shell) Post by Eric Blake for a hint about what's happening. This may be because the DLL's need to be ‘rebased’ andĬalled rebaseall (in the package rebase). Sometimes Cygwin gets itself into a condition in which thingsĭon't work very well any more and beastly error messages appear, such asĭoing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable Started by right-clicking the Cygwin/X Server icon in the system The XWin server may start but some applications cannot be It is sometimes desirable to define a Windows environment variableĪmong other things, this prevents ^C from being mapped To run an X11 programme (e.g., one of my graphics programmes), one The past, but today (2015 Apr 11) I'm giving up after getting build messages I've made at least some of my software run under Cygwin in Libjpeg* (Cygwin has version 8, I assume 6.2, Cygwin no longer has itĮven as an obsolete package 8 should be source compatible with 6.2 The following packages, although I've become a bit confused about when
#Mingw cygwin install
To compile my software I think I need to explicitly install Subsequent updates are done byĬ:\cygwin64 as the Root Install Directory andĭ:\CygwinPackages as the Local Package Directory. In the context of a question about symlinks, see thisĬygwin is installed by downloading and running a setup programme,Į.g., setup-x86_64.exe. I don't really quite get all the distinctions. Provided by Microsoft as part of Windows. Microsoft Windows applications it makes use of DLL's that are MinGW is a minimalist GNU Linux environment for developing native Software I like: Cygwin and MinGW Software I like: Cygwin,Ĭygwin is a collection of GNU tools that provides a Linux-likeĮnvironment under Microsoft Windows the DLL cygwin1.dll provides
