Top "Cygwin" questions

A simple explanation of what is MinGW

I'm an avid Python user and it seems that I require MinGW to be installed on my Windows machine to …

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Change default XTerm font size in Cygwin

Anyone know how to change the default font size when you open a new XTERM windown in Cygwin? I have …

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Public key authentication issues on cygwin

I've been trying "ssh localhost" on cygwin (I use WIndows 7), but it keeps asking for the password. When I did "…

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Differences between MSYS2 and Cygwin

Traditionally MSYS bash has been considered inferior to Cygwin bash. The former was an ancillary tool inside MinGW intended for …

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ValueError: Unknown MS Compiler version 1900

I am trying to run some code with Python 3.5 on Windows 10 with the use of cygwin (mingw). To be precise …

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Invoking python under CygWin on Windows hangs

Installing a new Windows system, I've installed CygWin and 64 bit Python (2.7.3) in their default locations (c:\cygwin and c:\Python27\…

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How do I manually install an old cygwin package?

A project I am working on requires an old version of SLAPD (the LDAP server) and must run on Windows, …

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Using Curl to get a Https webpage in Windows 7

I just need to fetch an https page, and I'm using curl currently by having the curl.exe application in …

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'RTLD_NEXT' undeclared

I'm trying to compile a C program but I get the error 'RTLD_NEXT' undeclared. I think this is supposed …

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How to add an enterprise certificate authority (CA) to git on cygwin (and some linux distros)

When fetching with git on Cygwin you get: Fetching origin fatal: unable to access 'https://.../...git': SSL certificate problem: self …

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