cygwin installer

[Jonah Bossewitch]

Hi,

I was hoping that someone might be able to point me in the direction of 
some documentation for creating a standalone windows installer for a 
cygwin based application.

What I mean by this, is a one-click installer that ships with the cygwin 
dlls, and all the necessary dependancies, along with the application 
that we are porting. So, if a user doesn't have cygwin, they don't need 
to install it separately first.  I understand that people with cygwin 
already installed may need to download a separate binary since the 
installer might mess up their existing installation.

I have seen one or two projects that seem to have accomplished this 
using NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) to create this installer, but 
I am having a hard time tracking down how they accomplished this.

On a related note, I want to make sure that this technique conforms to 
the cygwin license.  If it makes a difference, the application we are 
porting is for an educational non-profit - a medical school which has a 
command line genetics simulation program.

I will gladly write up step by step instructions outlining the
method.

Thanks for all your help,
Jonah


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