Install instructions for installing Cygwin:

Go to http://cygwin.com/install.html

Choose setup 86 or 64:

Launch the setup by right clicking your downloaded file and choosing to “run as administrator”.

 

Any will do, but Cygwin.mirrors.pair.com is close by in Pennsylvania.

Click on the word skip next to all these packages:

Container

Package

Description

Base

CoreUtils

(This should be checked as a default but was not in my install. All base packages need to be installed.)

Database

Gdbm

Gnu dbm implementation

 

Libmysqlclient18

Mysql database client library (runtime)

 

Mysql

Mysql client apps

 

Mysqld

Mysql database server

 

Mysql-test

Mysql server testsuite

 

Perl-dbi

Perl database interface module

Developer

Gcc:g++

C++ compiler

 

Gcc-core 

C compiler

 

Gdb

The gnu debugger

 

Make

The gnu version of the make utility

 

Pl-devel  

Development files for swi prolog

 

Pl-odbc

Odbc for swi prolog

editors

vim

 

Net                

Openssh 

Openssh server and client programs

 

openssl

 

Perl

All

(just click skip next to the perl group)

 

Accept all dependencies:

It will then be a long download process:

Then, edit the profile in C:\cygwin64\etc\profile to have

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"