Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
It consists of an emulation DLL providing Linux API functionality, and ports of thousands of Linux tools to Windows.

Journal Entries

Avatar

better cygwin luck with freetalk; using it now! maj — 2 months ago

Avatar

hmm--got xalan and xerces to compile and even link in cygwin, but no joy--in defeat, dl'ed the win32 binary (works great!) maj — 2 months ago

Avatar

building xerces and xalan on cygwin -- not particularly intutitive, but at least they've heard of cygwin maj — 3 months ago

See All Journal Entries

Ohloh Analysis Summary

Updated 18 Mar 2010 12:03 UTC


Ratings & Reviews

Community Rating
4.0/5.0

Based on 130 user ratings.

Your Rating

Click to rate this project.

over 3 years ago Avatar
A little quirky but worth the effort

    by bombguy

Pros: you can be up and running a full GNU tools environment on Windows in 20 minutes. Vast support for anything credible and it just works. Frankly, I don't know how even the most hardened MS fanboy could efficiently write code or manage a Windows box without this stuff.

Cons: Windows ACLs + Unix permissions equals some entertaining snafus in complex deploys. Many tools (Postgres, Ruby, etc) are inferior to x86 native builds due to ... [More] Cygwin emulation overhead. Use this to get started but seek alternate distributions for key components of production systems.

Dishonorable mention: the setup utility is clearly designed by a crazy person. This brilliant utility also takes the place of a package manager, which means you're never more than one wrong click away from updating your entire toolset by accident. Mindblowingly idiotic. [Less]

2 of 2 users found the following review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? |

over 3 years ago Avatar
Making developing on windows to not suck

  by Michael Guymon

Cygwin is the only way I can see being a developer in Windows. Cygwin has ported many of the powerful GNU/Linux commands. Where Windows ease of use can be problematic when you need fine grain control and information, Cygwin lets you ps, grep, and awk to success.

2 of 2 users found the following review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? |

Links

0 links submitted so far. Submit your own links.

Download Page
4 downloads

Who uses Cygwin?

Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar

Who contributes to Cygwin?

Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar Avatar

Who manages Cygwin?

I'm a manager

Where in the world?




People who use Cygwin also use:

HTML Tidy VI


Project Cost

This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch. More »
Include
Codebase 1,388,132
Effort (est.) 398 Person Years
Avg. Salary $ year
$ 21,866,059