Cygwin Ports project

Welcome to the newest home of the Cygwin Ports project.
This project provides Cygwin binary and source packages for a large variety of programs and libraries, including the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.

Installation:

Due to limitations in Cygwin's setup.exe, you must follow these directions exactly every time you update your installation:

1. Use the current Cygwin setup.exe.
2. Launch setup.exe, and Download Without Installing from your favourite Cygwin mirror as normal.
3. Launch setup.exe again with the -X flag and choose Download Without Installing.
4. Add and select ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports (or a sourceware mirror) in the mirror list.
5. Select the packages of your choice and their dependencies and updates for download.
6. From a Cygwin shell, run this command:

   sed -i -e "/^setup-timestamp:/ s/ \(.*\)/ $(date +%s)/" \
   "$(cygpath -u "$(cat /etc/setup/last-cache)")/ftp%3a%2f%2fsourceware.org%2fpub%2fcygwinports/setup.ini"

7. Launch setup.exe once more and Install from Local Directory.

Support:

Cygwin Ports uses mailing lists hosted on SourceForge.net. There are two lists, cygwin-ports-general for discussion, and cygwin-ports-announce for new package announcements. Please, do NOT send messages about Cygwin Ports to the cygwin.com lists!

Here are some resources:

• Project blog
• Project Twitter feed
• A list of currently available packages
• Browse Subversion repository
• CIA.vc stats
• Ohloh metrics
• GNOME Bugzilla submissions
• FreeDesktop Bugzilla submissions
• KDE Bugzilla submissions

Thank you for your support as we work to port more software to the Cygwin platform.

Many thanks to sourceware.org for hosting Cygwin Ports.