TPP:Windows Cygwin Installation - SPCTools
Installing Cygwin on Windows: This is pretty straightforward. Download the Cygwin installation wizard setup.exe from the Cygwin site and double-click on it. Most of the default selections in the wizard are fine. Select a place to install Cygwin (recommended: C:\cygwin) and select a place to put the installation files (the same place works program to unzip and install Cygwin at any point. The Cygwin setup.exe file will do it for you and will do it correctly if you ever need to uninstall any or all of the files, you should use the setup.exe to do so. Click here for more information on how to uninstall Choose A Download Source: once you have downloaded the Cygwin setup.exe file The IRAF/Cygwin installation described here has been tested successfully on a Windows 8.1 PC. Here we assume that Cygwin (32bit) has been properly installed, with all the required packages (in particular the tcsh shell, wget, X11 including xinit, ncurses including libncurses7). Automated Installation Please download this simple Windows batch script: install_cygwin.bat. It can be run from anywhere on your disk, either by executing it from the terminal or by double clicking on it. The script uses curl to download the Cygwin setup file. Close Cygwin if it is running. Run Cygwin Setup. Click on "Next" until you reach the "Select Packages" screen. Find the "XFree86" (UPDATE: "X11" entry) (X Windows) entry (about second from last), and click on the text "Default" which should change to say "install" Click on the next button, and let Cygwin download and install the X Windows system.
This installation will install a Unix environment (Cygwin) on your Windows system. The installation process is automated and not complicated. If you use BioworksBrowser and SequestBrowser, please download and install these tools prior to installing the SPC software. By default the software installs and uses the Apache2 webserver.
TPP:Windows Cygwin Installation - SPCTools If you are upgrading, you don't have to do anything special. Note, you do not have to re-download the cygwin setup program; re-running will find the latest version via the internet. Just follow the Cygwin installation instructions listed above. Installing Cygwin and Starting the SSH Daemon
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Installation and verification: Use the Cygwin setup program to install the MinGW x86_64 compiler toolchain: Devel→mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ The setup program will figure out, download, and install all necessary dependencies. To use WGL instead of GLX under Cygwin, you need to link your program against native Win32 graphics libraries. 3. Open a cygwin prompt (the installation should have created a shortcut for this, if not, open a DOS box and type "c:\cygwin\cygwin". You shouild now have a Unix like prompt.) 4. Type "cpan" then hit return. Then, at the cpan prompt, type the following lines followed by return: (Mostly it is pretty much automatic with little prompting. Note Check the FAQ on the Cygwin web site Removing Cygwin. This is a manual process at the moment. There is no uninstaller. Be careful editing the registry. Setup has no automatic uninstall facility. Just delete everything manually: • Cygwin shortcuts on the Desktop and Start Menu • Anything under the Cygwin root folder, `C:\cygwin' by default. Though Cygwin provides the ability to update and install packages via the use of the Cygwin`s setup.exe command, the command line installer apt-cyg provides apt-get like syntax whilst still using Cygwin's native package repository. c:/cygwin/etc/passwd is created during the Cygwin installation. If your Windows account is a domain account and not a local account, then you may need to add an entry to c:/cygwin/etc/passwd by hand. Convenient automatic upgrade/update facilities -- The "setup" program of cygwin remembers all the software you have downloaded. -- Go back to the "setup" as often as you like to download new software, to upgrade installed software, to re-install software, or to un-install software. Cygwin programs are installed by running Cygwin's "setup" program, which downloads the necessary program and feature package files from repositories on the Internet. As mentioned, there are two versions of this setup program, one for 32-bit versions of the Cygwin DLL, and corresponding applications, and one for 64-bit versions.