Cygwin User's Guide

DJ Delorie

Pierre Humblet

Geoffrey Noer

Copyright © 1998,1999 Cygnus Solutions.

Table of Contents

1. Cygwin Overview

What is it?

Are the Cygwin tools free software?

A brief history of the Cygwin project

Expectations for UNIX Programmers

Expectations for Windows Programmers

Highlights of Cygwin Functionality

Introduction
Supporting both Windows NT and 9x
Permissions and Security
File Access
Text Mode vs. Binary Mode
ANSI C Library
Process Creation
Signals
Sockets
Select

2. Setting Up Cygwin

Cygwin Contents
Installing the binary release
Installing the source code
Directory Structure
Environment Variables
Customizing bash

3. Using Cygwin

Mapping path names

Win32 and POSIX paths
Mount point types
Where to mount

Text and Binary modes

The Issue
The default Cygwin behavior
Example
Binary or text?
Programming

File permissions

Special filenames

DOS devices
POSIX devices
The .exe extension
The @pathnames

The CYGWIN environment variable

Cygwin Utilities

cygcheck
cygpath
kill
mkgroup
mkpasswd
passwd
mount
ps
umount

4. Programming with Cygwin

Using GCC with Cygwin

Console Mode Applications
GUI Mode Applications

Debugging Cygwin Programs

Building and Using DLLs

Building DLLs
Linking Against DLLs

Defining Windows Resources

		Next
		Cygwin Overview