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Hello,

we have similar problems with Singular.

I have used the following solutions:

1. Singular is a Cygwin package, so experienced users can just use the 
Cygwin setup.

2. I have build executeables with "Package for the Web", containing a 
suitable small distribution of Cygwin with Singular and modified the 
stored repository and the setup.exe, so that the user must only choose 
the destination directory.

3. A further modified version of setup.exe is shipped with the 
Singular-CD. It works exactly as the standard Cygwin setup.exe, but do 
not show the dialogs, where you can choose between local and internet 
install and where can choose your local package rep. It just takes the 
one on the CD. On the CD we also provide further Cygwin packages, not 
needed for Singular, as TeTex, gcc, etc.

If you want to take a look:

http://www.singular.uni-kl.de

The advance of this over just delivering some Dlls is, that the user 
have a correct and full-functional Cygwin environment, which he can 
shares with other application using similar installation techniques.

I hope that all this is in the scope of the license.

Greetings,

Oliver

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