Cygwin

NCUCC Fan-Lei Liao

What Is Cygwin?
GNU + Cygnus +Windows = Cygwin

What Can Cygwin Do?

Learning Bash environment Unix base environment Remote ssh Develop Gcc Perl java

Why Do I Use Cygwin?

Convenient Unix-like Shell environment on windows Use some useful unix software on windows

How Can I Start ?

Install on the internet Run on the XliveCD

Install from internet(1)

Download setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com

Install from internet(2)

Double click the icon to start the installation

Install from internet(3)

Choose installation type install from internet

Install from internet(4)

Choose installation directory Install for all users Default text file type: unix/binary

Install from internet(5)

Select local package directory

Install from internet(6)

Select connection type:Direct connection

Install from internet(7)

Choose donwload site:ftp://ftp.ntu.edu.tw

Install from internet(8)

Select packages

Install from internet(9)

Install process

Install from internet(10)

Update Click the setup.exe icon again

Run form XliveCD

XliveCD http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/

Some Interesting Application

Apache Server www server Gcc -- compiler ncftp/proftp ftp client and server Wget retrieve files via http and ftp W3m -- a text base web browses

What can't Cygwin do?

not a native unix Many packages must recompile

FAQ

Reference
http://www.google.com.tw Apache on cygwin http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/cygwin.html Chinese in Cygwin http://cle.linux.org.tw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99&highlight=c ygwin Wingaim http://gaim.myweb.hinet.net/build.html XliveCD http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ cygutils

http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/