Which cygwin packages to install?

This section provides information on local development configuration with Cygwin for Windows environments.

You can install Cygwin if you do not have access to a Mac or Linux environment. This allows you to perform tasks typically not possible in Windows, such as installing Terminus.

You can now use Terminus commands, scripts, and plugins to maintain your site.

• Devel: cmake. cmake-gui. gcc-core. gcc-g++ gdb. git. make.
• Libs: libboost-devel.
• Python: python3.
• Shells: chere (for shell integration)
• X11: (Needed for cmake-gui) gnu-free-fonts. xinit.

Run the Cygwin setup.exe file (You can download it at cygwin.com). Choose your options and click next until you reach a screen that shows the list of packages.

If your 'select packages' screen looks different from mine, just click the 'View' button near the top-right again and again until the text next to view is 'Category', just like mine.

Update: In the new Cygwin interface, click the drop-down next to the View label in the top left and select Category. Thanks to simlev for the answer.

Next, click the 'Default' next to 'All'.

Now all packages are selected!

(The last step is to just do the rest of the steps the setup program tells you to do.).

If you need to 'update' your current Cygwin to have all the new packages without deleting your old ones etc., then this info from Cygwin.com should be useful: