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What Is Cygwin?

Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. It consists of two parts:

A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation layer providing substantial UNIX API functionality.
A collection of tools, ported from UNIX, which provide UNIX/Linux look and feel.

The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.

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Use the setup.exe tool both to initially install Cygwin and later to change your Cygwin configuration: add and remove packages, check for package updates.

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read about additional
package download options.

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find a package or file in the cygwin release.

Latest Cygwin DLL release version is 1.3.12-2

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What's New and How Do I Get it?

The latest net releases of the Cygwin DLL are numbered 1.1.x or 1.3.x. 1.n.x versions of the Cygwin DLL are newer than previous beta Bxx (i.e. B19, B20, B20.1) versions. The last commercial release was v1.0 which was only released on CD-ROM and is no longer available. Red Hat has no current plans to release a new commercial CD. The Red Hat GNUpro release version is currently 1.2.x and is available only with Red Hat support contracts.

The last Bxx release was in December 1998. The Bxx releases are no longer available. In fact, older versions of the DLL or utilities are not usually available on this web site. Any cygwin program built from December 1998 onward should work correctly with newer DLLs.

Note that the 1.n.x version numbering refers only to the Cygwin DLL. Individual packages like bash, gcc, less, etc. are released independently of the DLL. The setup.exe utility, which is downloaded when you click on the above link, tracks the versions of all installed components and provides the mechanism for installing or updating everything.

Note also that, by default, setup.exe does not install everything. Only the base cygwin distribution is installed by default. When running setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated. For instance, clicking on the "Default" field next to the "All" category will provide you with the opportunity to install every Cygwin package. Be advised that this will download and install hundreds of megabytes to your computer. The best plan is probably to click on individual categories and install either entire categories or packages from the categories themselves.

News

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.12-2 release
Jul 8 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.12 release
Jul 3 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.11 release
Jun 23 2002, Christopher Faylor

Unofficial Off-site Cygwin News Server
Mar 2 2002, Daniel Adams

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.10 release
Feb 27 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.9 release
Jan 21 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.8 release
Jan 20 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.7 release
Jan 19 2002, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.6 release
Dec 2 2001, Christopher Faylor

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.5 release
Nov 11 2001, Christopher Faylor

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Software

txt2pdf 6.0

Major release with Japanese support. Sep 2 2002, SANFACE Software

Hybrid 7rc1 IRCD
Jul 29 2002, Zeke Gomez

Shaolin Secure FTP v0.98 Beta 3
Jul 4 2002, Joseph S. Testa II

Recode - character set conversion
Jun 25 2002, Francois Pinard

ImageMagick 5.4.6
Jun 18 2002, Bob Friesenhahn

Singular - A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations
May 28 2002, Viktor Levandovskyy (Singular Team)

IRC Socks Scanner Sockscleaner 0.4
May 21 2002, Diego Duarte

The Gnu GMP 4.0.1
May 21 2002, Diego Duarte

Hybrid 6.3 IRCD
May 21 2002, Diego Duarte

micq 0.4.8
May 19 2002, Diego Duarte

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For Cygwin licensing or commercial support, please visit the Red Hat Cygwin Product site.

For all other questions and observations, please check the resources available at this site, such as the FAQ, the User's Guide and the mailing list archives. If you've exhausted these resources then please send email to an appropriate mailing list . This includes observations about web pages, setup questions, questions about where to find things, questions about why things are done a certain way, questions about the color preferences of Cygwin developers, questions about the meaning of the number 42, etc.

Please send notification of technical problems (bad html, broken links) concerning these web pages to the cygwin mailing list.

Please do not send personal email with "quick questions" to individual cygwin developers. The cygwin mailing lists are the places for all questions. Really. I mean it.

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