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Synonyms for cygwin or Related words with cygwin
mingw
toolchain
slackware
freedos
amigaos
busybox
dosbox
xfce
xcode
uclibc
wxwidgets
centos
lxde
minix
watcom
glibc
xfree
pkgsrc
opensolaris
libreoffice
illumos
debian
binutils
autoconf
nextstep
visualage
yast
gnustep
codewarrior
jre
openjdk
applescript
pyqt
macosx
ultrix
winnt
opensuse
reactos
rhel
openssh
fltk
autoit
msvc
xchat
uclinux
webmin
lgpl
msdos
morphos
systemd
Examples of "cygwin"
One use for
Cygwin
/X is to provide a graphical interface for applications running on the same computer with
Cygwin
/X which are designed for the X Window System. Such an application is probably running under
Cygwin
.
Cygwin
/X is an implementation of the X Window System that runs under Microsoft Windows. It is part of the
Cygwin
project, and is installed using Cygwin's standard setup system.
Cygwin
/X is free software, licensed under the X11 License.
Cygwin
( ) is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
Cygwin
provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment. Thus it is possible to launch Windows applications from the
Cygwin
environment, as well as to use
Cygwin
tools and applications within the Windows operating context.
The
Cygwin
emulation layer is another way of running Perl under Windows.
Cygwin
provides a Unix-like environment on Windows, and both Perl and CPAN are available as standard pre-compiled packages in the
Cygwin
setup program. Since
Cygwin
also includes gcc, compiling Perl from source is also possible.
Additionally,
Cygwin
can be set up to support native Windows symbolic links which can be used out of
Cygwin
without restrictions. This requires:
The initial software development kit (sdk4) was based on
cygwin
1.3.x and Cradles umgcc (GCC port). Sdk5 is based on
Cygwin
1.5.x and cragcc (gcc port).
TeXmacs currently runs on most Unix-based architectures including Linux, FreeBSD,
Cygwin
and macOS. Along with the
Cygwin
version, a native beta port is available for Microsoft Windows.
Cygwin
compatible binaries are available for Windows.
Another use for
Cygwin
/X is as an X terminal: applications running on another computer access the
Cygwin
/X X server via the X protocol over an IP network. One can run XDM on the remote system so that a user can log in to the remote computer via a window on the
Cygwin
/X system and then the remote system puts up web browsers, terminal windows, and the like on the
Cygwin
/X display.
The
Cygwin
User's Guide has more information on this topic.
Cygwin
simulates POSIX-compliant symbolic links in the Microsoft Windows file system. It uses identical programming and user utility interfaces as Unix (see above), but creates Windows shortcuts (.lnk files) with additional information used by
Cygwin
at the time of symlink resolution.
Cygwin
symlinks are compliant with both Windows and the POSIX standard.
The
Cygwin
Ports project provides many additional packages that are not available in the
Cygwin
distribution itself. Examples include GNOME and K Desktop Environment 3 as well as the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language.
Instructions are also available for creating the executable using
Cygwin
. Building HYPERMAIL on WIN32 with
CYGWIN
, by Bob Crispen, guides the user through the steps required, and offers a usage example as well.
KDE on
Cygwin
is the port of the Qt toolkit and the KDE desktop environment (both of which are commonly found in Linux) to the Windows Operating System by using
Cygwin
, a POSIX emulation layer.
A known problem with XWinLogon is that it conflicts with an existing
Cygwin
installation.
The regularly updated
Cygwin
port of aspell can also be used in Windows.
Irssi builds and runs on Microsoft Windows under
Cygwin
, and in 2006, an official Windows standalone build became available.
It also compiles and runs under
Cygwin
, Mingw32, Mac OS/X, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, Fedora, and most certainly many other Unices.
The toolkit is distributed as part of the Mumps Compiler. Versions exist for Linux,
Cygwin
, and Windows XP.
On Windows, third party implementations of tar, rsync, and SSH (such as
Cygwin
) are required to utilize those protocols.