Ideas for better powershell<-->Cygwin integration?

Jeremy Drake cygwin@jdrake.com
Fri Jun 20 17:42:20 GMT 2025


On Fri, 20 Jun 2025, Sebastian Feld via Cygwin wrote:

> Does anyone have ideas for a better powershell<-->Cygwin integration?
> What features are missing, how could both sides better interact with each other?

Perhaps you would like MSYS2 - it is Cygwin, but with patches to try to
make it integrate better with Windows processes.  The biggest such patch
is a heuristic to automatically translate apparent paths in arguments and
environment variables when Cygwin processes call native Windows processes
and vice-versa.  Git for Windows is based on MSYS2, for instance.


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