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#Cygwin installation on windows install
#Cygwin installation on windows Pc

Click (once) on the word "Skip" for each item in the Devel branch to select it (some will select others, so only click on them if they still show "Skip".

To do compiles you need a few extras, so click on the "+Devel" tree (circled).

There will be a pause while it reads the available packages from this site - then you will see the ones it is offering you.

Choose a site for downloading from - preferably one near to you.

I chose D:\Cygwin_Install because I had more disk space free on D.

Choose where the downloaded files are to go.

I chose D:\Cygwin however the default of C:\Cygwin may be suitable, providing you have around 400 Mb free on C.

Click on Next to start the ball rolling.

You may get a warning about a certificate - you can ignore that.

Choose to run the program (setup.exe) from its current location.

Click on the "install Cygwin now" button (circled).

compiling), so probably at least 600 Mb would be useful. You would also need extra disk space to actually do something useful (eg. In other words, have at least 500 Mb free.

#Cygwin installation on windows install

I found the install required about 100 Mb to hold the downloaded files, plus a further 400 Mb for the uncompressed Cygwin directory.

#Cygwin installation on windows Pc

My example PC was running Windows NT 4, however it should work with minor differences under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP. With it you can do many of the things that can be done with Linux under Windows. This page shows a step-by-step example of installing Cygwin - a version of Unix that runs under Windows.