These utils are present in some cygwin installations, but do not work correctly. The following fails on the latest installation (as of Jan 4, 2016) for me: python -c "import time; time.sleep(60)" ...

This gets encoded in wheels as platform tag and newer pip has started to verify those match the installed python. So everytime we update cygwin pip will complain about all Python packages: $ pip check ...

System is Win32, with a 3 week old cygwin and Activestate python install. I use rxvt as a terminal and tcsh as a shell.When I enter "python -m pdb snake.py" it just sits there. To run the debugger ...

Cygwin offers just this ability to anyone who is running Microsoft Windows but wants access to a Linux command shell and many of the best open-source Linux programs available today.

I want to permanently alias 'gcc' to 'gcc -mno-cygwin'. Is there any way that I can set that up so I don't have to do it everytime I fire up Cygwin?