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charset="utf-8" Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 5AOEnoxw1549118 Note: I'm not subscribed to the list so this is a reply to: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-November/259012.html >> Where exactly is conpty.dll coming from? Does it have a public repo on >> github or is it proprietary? > > It's here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/winconpty > > Microsoft distributes a pre-compiled version of it via NuGet. The source code > license is MIT. >  >> Can we build it ourselves? > > It uses a vcxproj file for building. Would need MSBuild. > > Regards > > Oliver Old As far as I know conpty.dll is only an interface to (new) conhost.exe, which, at the Windows Terminal distribution is called OpenConsole.exe . Other terminals (non-cygwin) typically either distribute both together with their binaries (e.g. WezTerm) or support putting these two files near their binary, and attempt the local conpty.dll first (e.g. Alacritty). I'm _guessing_ the conhost/openconsole binary is: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host conhost seems to consist of much more source files than conpty.dll, and it might be trickier to build (did not try myself). So if a conpty package is maintained in cygwin, it would likely require to include also a new conhost/openconsole with it. Just FYI, avih -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple