Chapter 2. Setting Up Cygwin

Table of Contents
Cygwin Contents
Installing the binary release
Installing the source code
Directory Structure
Environment Variables
NT security and the ntsec usage
Customizing bash

Cygwin Contents

The following packages are included in the full release:

Development tools: binutils, bison, byacc, dejagnu, diff, expect, flex, gas, gcc, gdb, itcl, ld, libstdc++, make, patch, tcl, tix, tk

User tools: ash, bash, bzip2, diff, fileutils, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, less, m4, sed, shellutils, tar, textutils, time

The user tools release only contains the user tools.

Full source code is available for these tools.