What is a Cygwin?
According to developers " Cygwin is a Open-source Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL ( cygwin1.dll ) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. "
Basically Cygwin allows Windows users to use Unix commands in Windows environment. What you have to remember is Linux binary applications would not wok directly in Cygwin. You have to compile the application source using cygwin for it to work.
How to Install?
First you have to download the setup for Cygwin.
32 bit :- https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
64 bit:- https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
Download the relevent setup according to your windows system.
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