Yaakov, I don't know if you saw http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00229.html, but Jon found the cause of a bug that you and I both ran into. The bug has been fixed in cygwin-1.7.22, but we need a rebuild of libcairo2 on x86_64 in order to take advantage of the fix. Thanks. Ken