Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/09/09/09:53:09
I just had to reinstall Cygwin on a reimaged computer, and decided to finally tackle the automated
installation. I didn't find any recent posts on the topic, so here's my solution.
In a new installation, we have to write an (ugh) MSDOS CMD script, since bash isn't available. One
way around that would be to install just the base, then run a bash script, but I decided to bite the
bullet and write a CMD script that would do it all in one go.
Here's what mine looks like:
setup.exe ^
--no-shortcuts ^
--quiet-mode ^
--disable-buggy-antivirus ^
--packages ^
aria2,^
atool,^
autoconf,^
automake,^
autossh,^
and so on. Two things to notice:
* The caret (^) character at the end of every line is CMD's line continuation character. (Maybe you
already knew that, but not being very experienced with CMD, I had to look around to find it out.)
* The list of package names is comma-delimited. This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere in the
setup help, but the --packages option expects a comma-delimited list of package names. If you
space-delimit them, only the first one will be installed and the rest will be ignored.
Nirvana. A one-click new Cygwin installation, with all of my favorite packages. I hope it's useful
to others.
Andrew.
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