Setup cygwin

Setup Cygwin

Cygwin is a 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.

The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the exception of Windows CE.

Download and install

Download the Cygwin installer and execute it. This installer allows you to download and install the Cygwin environment and tools. In order to make Plplot compile on Cygwin you need the following packages:

• Devel/gcc or Devel/gcc4
• Devel/g++ or Devel/g++4 (for C++ bindings)
• Devel/gada or Devel/gada4 (for Ada bindings)
• Devel/g77 or Devel/gfortran (for f77 bindings)
• Devel/libqhull-devel
• Devel/swig
• Devel/cmake
• Devel/libtool
• Devel/make