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Install Update Search Packages Licensing Terms /X Community Reporting Problems Mailing Lists Newsgroups IRC channels Gold Stars Mirror Sites Donations Documentation FAQ User's Guide API Reference Acronyms Contributing Snapshots Source in Git Packages Related Sites Get that Linux feeling - on Windows This is the home of the project What... ...is it? is: a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality. ...isn't it? is not: a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows. a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX® functionality like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of functionality. The DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86_64 versions of Windows, starting with Windows Vista. For more information see the FAQ . version The most recent version of the DLL is 3.1.4 . Installing Install by running setup-x86_64.exe Use the setup program to perform a fresh install or to update an existing installation. Keep in mind that individual packages in the distribution are updated separately from the DLL so the DLL version is not useful as a general distribution release number. Support for For all -related 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 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 mailing list . Please do not send personal email with "quick questions" to individual contributors. The mailing lists are the places for all questions. Really. I mean it. 32 bit Address space is a very limiting factor for . These days, a full 32 bit distro is not feasible anymore, and will in all likelihood fail in random places due to an issue with the fork(2) system call. Therefore we recommend using 32 bit only in limited scenarios, with only a minimum of necessary packages installed, and only if there's no way to run 64 bit instead. You have been warned. If you're still sure you really need a 32 bit , and there's absolutely no way around it, you may run the setup-x86.exe installer. The DLL and utilities are Copyright © authors. Other packages have other copyrights. UNIX ® is a registered trademark of the Open Group in the United States and other countries. NOT SEND EMAIL TO THIS ADDRESS: aaaspam@sourceware.org IT IS HERE ONLY TO COLLECT SPAM. IF YOU SEND EMAIL TO THIS ADDRESS YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY BLOCKED....