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Utilities for Cygwin

On this site you will find many utilities for the Cygwin environment, including Perl and run. Both binaries and sourcecode are provided. Cygwin is an open-source POSIX emulation layer for W*ndows. It allows you to use all your favorite GNU and Unix utilities while trapped in the wasteland of a certain company's OS.

How To Install

See this helpful page.

News

2003-05-17: cygipc-1.14 released. This is a backward-compatible, drop-in replacement for cygipc-1.13. It adds a fix from Jason Tischler and Igor Pechtchanski that corrects problems with WinXP and Fast User Switching.
2003-May-17: the rpm package has been obsoleted by the rpm-4.1-1, rpm-build-4.1-1 and rpm-doc-4.1-1 packages now included in the official Cygwin net-release. Get the official versions at one of these sites, in the 'cygwin/release/rpm/' directories (but you really should be using the setup.exe program to install cygwin components).
The web page for the port of rpm that was previously available here has been moved to the obsolete part of this site. The binaries are no longer available.
2002-11-13: cygipc-1.13 released. This is a backward-compatible, drop-in replacement for cygipc-1.11. Pretend 1.12 never happened. 1.13 contains some error reporting fixes from Jason Tishler, a bugfix for quoting the program path from Przemysław Sztoch, and a fix for recording the verboseness level in the registry.
2002-Jul-10: the db package has been obsoleted by the db2-2.7.7-4, libdb2-2.7.7-4 and libdb2-devel-2.7.7-4 now included in the official Cygwin net-release. Get the official versions at one of these sites, in the 'cygwin/release/db/' directories (but you really should be using the setup.exe program to install cygwin components).
The web page for the port of db that was previously available here has been moved to the obsolete part of this site. The binaries are no longer available.
2002-07-03: cygipc-1.12 released. Because newlib redefined key_t to be 64 bits (as of cygwin-1.3.11), we have a binary incompatibility between cygipc-1.11- and cygipc-1.12+. This required major changes in cygipc to enable a smooth transition. See the cygipc page for a full description.
UPDATE: withdrawn. I jumped the gun.
2002-04-09: Massive site reorganization. The obsolete stuff that has been absorbed or otherwise superseded by packages in the official cygwin distribution have been moved over to the obsolete part of the site. For more information, check out this explanation.
Older news is available in the obsolete section of this site.

What's here

Some of these packages are not strictly cygwin-based, but I've found them useful adjuncts to my cygwin installation. Not having a better place for them, I'm making them available here.

bashprompt	Fancy schmancy prompts
cmd-reactos	An open-source clone of the NT/2K cmd shell for Win9x
consize	A scrollbuffer in Win9x/Me? It's true!
cygipc	Deprecated! Will soon be superseded by "the cygwin daemon", a new native component of the cygwin distribution.
dll-stuff	Examples for building DLLs using cygwin tools
msql-2.0.4.1	An old port of the msql database
mysql-clientlib	An old version of the mysql client library
perl-contrib	Various useful contributions to the world of perl/cygwin
rpm-3.0.3	An old buggy port of RPM
run	Avoid console windows with cygwin apps

Where's the "CygUtils" package?

If you're looking for the 'misc' package, it has been renamed to 'cygutils-package' and has it's own website: cygutils-package. Cygutils-Package is also distributed as an official part of the cygwin net-release. Get it here. The original webpages for cygutils-package (when it was still called 'misc') have been moved to the obsolete section of this site.

Last modified: Tue Apr 08 05:16:21 Eastern Daylight Time 2002