Cygwin is a UNIX emulation environment on a Windows platform, primarily by recompiling the software on a POSIX system onto windows. I believe many friends want to install Cygwin, but do not know how to install, because are English, for the people who do not have cold English is a painful thing, the following small series and everyone to share the Cygwin installation steps.
Download the installer Cygwin first. After the download is complete, run the Setup.exe program (32-bit and 64-bit respectively) and the installation screen appears. Directly point to "next", the Installation Mode dialog box appears as shown in:
We see three types of installation modes:
Install from the Internet, this mode is installed directly from the Internet, suitable for fast speed situation;
Download without installing, this mode only downloads the Cygwin component package from the Internet, but does not install;
Install from local Directory, this mode corresponds to the second mode above, and when your Cygwin component package has been downloaded locally, you can use this mode to install Cygwin locally.
Choose from the above three modes suitable for your installation mode, here we choose the first installation mode, directly from the Internet installation, of course, while downloading, Cygwin components are also saved to the local, so that later can be installed again. When selected, click "Next"
This step selects the installation directory for the Cygwin, as well as some parameter settings. Here I choose to install to E:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64, and then select "Next",
This step we can select the installation process from the Internet Download Cygwin component package saved location, after selecting, click "Next"
This step select the way to connect, select your connection, and then click Next, the Select Download Site dialog box appears, as shown in
In this step, select the first item directly and click "Next"
This step, we choose to download the installed component package, in order to enable our installed Cygwin to compile the program, we need to install the GCC compiler, by default, GCC will not be installed, we need to select it to install. In order to install GCC, we use the mouse to click on the "Devel" branch in the component list, where there are many components, we must:
Binutils
Gcc
Gcc-mingw
Gdb
Mouse click on the front of the component of the loop button, the build date will appear, we choose the latest version of the installation, is selected after the four categories of components:
After the selection, we choose the next step, enter the installation process
The time of installation depends on the components you select and the network conditions. After the installation is complete, the installer will prompt you to create the Cygwin icon on the desktop and click Finish to exit Setup.
Cygwin installation Tutorial Plot: Step by step to teach you to install settings Cygwin