Top "Cygwin" questions

Cygwin is a collection of GNU and other Unix-like FOSS tools which run on MS Windows and provide functionality similar to a GNU/Linux distribution while (mostly) conforming to POSIX specifications.

Cygwin gitk issue

I have recently installed all of the X11 packages in the cygwin setup and now have is massive annoying error …

git bash cygwin x11 gitk
"couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when running Cygwin commands

I am trying to setup some old version of Cygwin on my Windows 7 x64 OS. So far so good. Now …

windows-7 cygwin stdout stderr
tchar.h not found on cygwin

I'm running the latest cygwin on windows 7 (32-bit), and trying to build an open-source project, RtAudio (it doesn't currently build …

c++ windows-7 cross-platform cygwin tchar
Bash programmation (Cygwin): Illegal Character ^M

I have a problem with a character. I think it's a conversion problem between dos and unix. I have a …

windows bash cygwin bc
Can valgrind be used along with Cygwin?

I am building source on Windows using Cygwin, I need to find places with memory leaks and possible memory leaks. …

c cygwin valgrind
how to set up the psql command in cygwin?

I have a local dev site on my machine with Apache server and PostgreSQL 9.1 database. As I'm using Windows, I …

apache postgresql cygwin psql
Slow load time of bash in cygwin

At the moment bash takes about 2 seconds to load. I have ran bash with -x flag and I am seeing …

bash debugging cygwin bash-completion
GCC on Windows - Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL), CygWin, MinGW

I'm currently using windows 8.1 and was looking to install GCC. I found out that the ways to do this is …

bash gcc cygwin mingw windows-subsystem-for-linux
How can I use a shebang in a PowerShell script?

I have several PowerShell scripts that I'd like to invoke directly as a command from a Bash shell in Cygwin. …

bash shell powershell cygwin shebang
Configure Hydra-7.4.2 on Windows 7 using Cygwin

I am trying to configure THC Hydra 7.4.2 on my Windows 7 laptop with Cygwin. I installed Cygwin using setup.exe, I …

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