Cygwin Ports project

Welcome to the newest home of the Cygwin Ports project.
This project provides Cygwin binary and source packages for a large variety of programs and libraries, including the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.

New, simplified installation instructions:

1. Use the latest Cygwin setup.exe (at least version 2.738).
2. Launch setup.exe with the -K flag, e.g.:

   cygstart -- /path/to/setup.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg

3. On Choose Installation Type page, select "Install from Internet".
4. On Choose Download Site(s) page, select a distro mirror, then enter ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports in the User URL field and press Add (making sure that both are highlighted).
   • Mirrors are available by instead entering http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports as the User URL.
   • Alternatively, you can use a sourceware mirror, but if you do, you must use one hosted on a different server than your selected distro mirror.
5. Proceed with package selection and installation, making sure to install any indicated dependencies.

Support:

Cygwin Ports uses mailing lists hosted on SourceForge.net. There are two lists, cygwin-ports-general for discussion, and cygwin-ports-announce for new package announcements. Please, do NOT send messages about Cygwin Ports to the cygwin.com lists!

Here are some resources:

• Project blog
• Project Twitter feed
• Project Identi.ca feed
• Screenshot collection
• A list of currently available packages
• Browse Git repository
• CIA.vc stats
• Ohloh metrics
• GNOME Bugzilla submissions
• FreeDesktop Bugzilla submissions
• KDE Bugzilla submissions

Sponsors

Many thanks to the following corporate sponsors for their contributions to the project:

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Thank you for your support as we work to port more software to the Cygwin platform.

Many thanks to sourceware.org for hosting Cygwin Ports.

Webpage last updated: Friday, 15 July 2011.