Cygwin Portable is a Linux-like environment for Windows packaged as a portable app. Portable means that you can run Cygwin from portable devices like usb flash pen drives / usb sticks and use it on any computer.
Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin ... ble-0.2.7z
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwinportable/
Release note: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=845486
Cygwin Portable
Re: Cygwin Portable 0.2
Cygwin is portable by default. This is just usual cygwin with some configuration tweaks and launcher, which is needed by PortableApps.com Menu.saber wrote:Cygwin Portable is a Linux-like environment for Windows packaged as a portable app. Portable means that you can run Cygwin from portable devices like usb flash pen drives / usb sticks and use it on any computer.
Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin ... ble-0.2.7z
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwinportable/
Release note: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=845486
Re: Cygwin Portable 0.2
Old thread update: a portable (using PortableApps format) Cygwin is available by a group that evidently does a fair number of portable programs.
https://github.com/CybeSystems/CygwinPortable
Seems to be getting regular updates, so that's nice.
https://github.com/CybeSystems/CygwinPortable
Seems to be getting regular updates, so that's nice.
Re: Cygwin Portable
Another Cygwin portable is up on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-portable/ | PA thread: https://portableapps.com/node/59880 (untested). The goal of this program (like the one mentioned above) is to get it functioning within the PA launcher.
Re: Cygwin Portable
I started digging into this toolset recently, so adding some official Cygwin info:
Cygwin Installation
https://cygwin.com/install.html
Cygwin User's Guide
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net.html
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Various portable versions I've found that appear to be at least somewhat active ...
cygwin-portable-installer: Windows batch file to perform unattended installations of a portable Cygwin environment.
https://github.com/vegardit/cygwin-portable-installer
CygwinPortable
https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable
Portable Cygwin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-portable/
PA discussion: https://portableapps.com/node/54084 (not a very CLI-focused site, so not much here)
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Note: for some reason I can't seem to access vevy's official entry, so I'm not sure which one he's using: viewtopic.php?p=95545#p95545
Cygwin Installation
https://cygwin.com/install.html
Cygwin User's Guide
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net.html
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Various portable versions I've found that appear to be at least somewhat active ...
cygwin-portable-installer: Windows batch file to perform unattended installations of a portable Cygwin environment.
https://github.com/vegardit/cygwin-portable-installer
CygwinPortable
https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable
Portable Cygwin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-portable/
PA discussion: https://portableapps.com/node/54084 (not a very CLI-focused site, so not much here)
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Note: for some reason I can't seem to access vevy's official entry, so I'm not sure which one he's using: viewtopic.php?p=95545#p95545
Re: MinGW Portable
Assuming the risk of going off-topic, I'd like to point out MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) as a Cygwin alternative...
There's a (totally untested!) portable implementation of MinGW at https://github.com/jonasstrandstedt/MinGW.
Compile something in Cygwin and you are compiling it for Cygwin. Compile something in MinGW and you are compiling it for Windows.
There's a (totally untested!) portable implementation of MinGW at https://github.com/jonasstrandstedt/MinGW.
Re: Cygwin Portable
@webfork
I am using the official ("non-portable") one. I think you need to be logged in both using your username and the CLI DB credentials.
I found (although my experience is limited) that Cygwin can be made fairly portable. I have in the works a topic about how to do download and extract the needed files for the tools you need. Mostly just .exe and .dll files.
@Midas
AS far as my understanding goes, you want the following (non-exhaustive) if you want to port a Unix tool to Windows:
Also, if you are packaging tools individually (like GnuWin32 or ezwinports), you might have to include a copy of the libraries with each tool that depends on them, which leads to redundancy.
For something like Cygwin, you, as a maintainer, need to link all the different tools to a single "core" .dll, simplifying matters but requiring the end user to install/extract these core files before they can download and use a particular tool.
If you only need an occasional CLI tool, a self-contained port compiled under MinGW may be simpler and easier to manage as a user. If your use case is any deeper, a unified "environment" like Cygwin will be more manageable. It turns out that you only need a bunch of dlls to run most of the main Linux tools.
TL;DR: Cygwin is more of a hassle for an end user (as opposed to a developer/porter) who wants a one-off tool, but actually more organized if you use many Unix ports. Also see MSYS2 (which is like Cygwin on the surface, but built under MinGW)!
I am using the official ("non-portable") one. I think you need to be logged in both using your username and the CLI DB credentials.
I found (although my experience is limited) that Cygwin can be made fairly portable. I have in the works a topic about how to do download and extract the needed files for the tools you need. Mostly just .exe and .dll files.
@Midas
AS far as my understanding goes, you want the following (non-exhaustive) if you want to port a Unix tool to Windows:
- Port the tool itself.
- Take care of any dependencies.
- Take care of what the tool expects when it comes to CLI interpretation (e.g. shells conventions like forward and backward slashes, what handles wildcard expansion, acceptable vs reserved characters like a colon, etc)
Also, if you are packaging tools individually (like GnuWin32 or ezwinports), you might have to include a copy of the libraries with each tool that depends on them, which leads to redundancy.
For something like Cygwin, you, as a maintainer, need to link all the different tools to a single "core" .dll, simplifying matters but requiring the end user to install/extract these core files before they can download and use a particular tool.
If you only need an occasional CLI tool, a self-contained port compiled under MinGW may be simpler and easier to manage as a user. If your use case is any deeper, a unified "environment" like Cygwin will be more manageable. It turns out that you only need a bunch of dlls to run most of the main Linux tools.
TL;DR: Cygwin is more of a hassle for an end user (as opposed to a developer/porter) who wants a one-off tool, but actually more organized if you use many Unix ports. Also see MSYS2 (which is like Cygwin on the surface, but built under MinGW)!
Re: Cygwin Portable
On https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable, the most recent release is v.1.4.0.0 (Aug. 26 2020): https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable/releases