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.

pkg-config doesn't work on Cygwin

I try to compile a program (OpenFP) using cygwin. The program depends on a package FFTW3 which I've compiled and …

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c++ cygwin configure pkg-config
C compiler cannot create executables - Cygwin/MiniGW

I'm trying to compile Pyaudio, (a Python module) from source, since I'm using Windows, and only 32-bit binaries are available …

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gcc cygwin mingw portaudio pyaudio
How to use Mahout in a Windows environment?

I am trying to use Mahout in an application running on Windows. I want to build clusters from a lucene …

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How to use cp from stdin?

Note: # cat /tmp/foo - regular file /lib/a.lib /lib/b.lib /lib/c.lib /lib/d.lib cat /…

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Why choose bin vs src for Cygwin packages?

Why might one choose bin instead of src for Cygwin packages? And vice versa?

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Issues using perforce command line under cygwin

So, virtually cannot use the the perforce command line for anything other than syncing. My workspace root is mapped to …

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