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StrangeAttractor2014-10-09 14:05:32
Cygwin
StrangeAttractor, 2014-10-09 14:05:32

What to read to understand cygwin well?

I have a lot of experience in full-fledged GNU/Linux, but now, for a number of reasons, it is more convenient for me to work under Windows, and at the same time, I often need Linux-based programs. In general, I see Cygwin as a rather beautiful and convenient solution, and it would be great to turn it into a full-fledged GNU / Linux system integrated with Windows, but the lack of apt-get is very annoying (the standard GUI installer seems very inconvenient to me), the inability to fully integrate it with the system (in particular, access cygwin applications via CLI from self-written Windows programs) and the like. Theoretically, GUI applications and multimedia should even work there, but I'm even scared to imagine how it works. Advise what to read in the style of "how do we equip cygwin".

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Maksim Zverev, 2014-10-09
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apt-get is replaced by this: https://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/
About the gui, are you kidding? Do you want to get a console inside which to draw gui in gui? Don't you think it's through a proctologist?
It is also possible to execute commands in cygwin from cli:
c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe <your command here>

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