Cygwin - Features

Features

Cygwin's default package selection is fairly minimal, containing little more than the bash shell and the core file manipulation utilities expected of a Unix command line. A wide range of additional packages are available as optional installs in Cygwin's package manager ("setup.exe"). These include (among much else):

  • Shells (i.e. command line interpreters): bash, dash, pdksh, tcsh, zsh
  • File and system utilities: coreutils, findutils, util-linux
  • Text utilities: grep, sed, diff, patch, awk
  • Terminals: mintty, rxvt, screen
  • Editors: emacs, joe, mined, nano, vim
  • Remote login: ssh, rsh, telnet
  • Remote file transfer/synchronization: ftp, scp, rsync, unison, rtorrent
  • Compression/archiving: tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, zip
  • Text processing: TeX, groff, Ghostscript
  • Programming languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Ada, CLISP, Scheme, OCaml, Prolog
  • Development tools: make, autotools, flex, bison, doxygen
  • Version control systems: cvs, subversion, git, mercurial
  • Servers: Apache, BIND, PostgreSQL, Pure-FTPd, OpenSSH, telnetd, exim, UW IMAP
  • Clients: Mutt (email), Lynx (web), Irssi (IRC), tin (newsgroups)

The Cygwin/X project contributes an implementation of the X Window System that allows graphical Unix programs to display their user interfaces on the Windows desktop. This can be used both with local and remote programs. Cygwin ships with a fairly small number of X applications, for example:

  • Terminals: rxvt-unicode, xterm
  • Editors: emacs-X11, gvim
  • Text processors/viewers: LyX, xpdf, xdvi

In addition to the low-level Xlib library for developing X applications, Cygwin also ships with various higher-level and cross-platform GUI frameworks, including Gtk+ and Qt.

The Cygwin Ports project provides many additional packages that are not available in the Cygwin distribution itself. Examples include GNOME and K Desktop Environment 3 as well as the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language.

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