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> Creating a self-extracting .exe that installs parts of Cygwin is not a
> very Cygwin-friendly way of distributing software, as it won't play nicely
> with existing Cygwin installations (see <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP>).
> The approved way of installing Cygwin is using the setup.exe tool.

I totally agree that one should use Cygwin setup.exe to install a 
Cygwin-based application. However, you can just wrap setup.exe and a 
local repository with a base package holding all the packages to install 
with some Windows install program to get single executable setup package.

... Oliver

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