I just had to reinstall Cygwin on a reimaged computer, and decided to finally tackle the automated installation. I didn't find any recent posts on the topic, so here's my solution.
In a new installation, we have to write an (ugh) MSDOS CMD script, since bash isn't available. One way around that would be to install just the base, then run a bash script, but I decided to bite the bullet and write a CMD script that would do it all in one go. Here's what mine looks like: setup.exe ^ --no-shortcuts ^ --quiet-mode ^ --disable-buggy-antivirus ^ --packages ^ aria2,^ atool,^ autoconf,^ automake,^ autossh,^ and so on. Two things to notice: * The caret (^) character at the end of every line is CMD's line continuation character. (Maybe you already knew that, but not being very experienced with CMD, I had to look around to find it out.) * The list of package names is comma-delimited. This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere in the setup help, but the --packages option expects a comma-delimited list of package names. If you space-delimit them, only the first one will be installed and the rest will be ignored. Nirvana. A one-click new Cygwin installation, with all of my favorite packages. I hope it's useful to others. Andrew. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
