wget or curl as base package

I feel that wget or curl should be a Cygwin base package. I looked at these distros and they all come with one or both pre-installed. Debianwget Arch wget curl Fedora curl openSUSE wget curl Puppy wget curl MSYS2 curl Including wget for

Re: Problem using svn 1.8.13 accessing UNC network pathes under cygwin 1.7.35-1

On 4/24/2015 8:53 AM, Tobias Nähring wrote: > Hi, > I am experiencing the following problem again: > > > 2013-07 msg00376.html > > UNC paths are not recognized by svn. > The double slash at the beginning of UNC paths gets lost: > > svn status -u //servername/some/path/under/svn > svn: warning:

Installer quits suddenly after downloading packages

Hi all, I have a new machine and am failing to install cygwin on it, for some reason. After downloading packages, the installer suddenly closes. Nothing is written to /var/log. This is using the latest version of the 32bit installer, downloaded from the official website. Any ideas on what could c

*** fatal error in forked process

I try to compile and run WebKit with Cygwin64. I did get the WebKit package to compile and I now have a cygWebKit-0.dll, a WebProcess.exe and my WebLauncher application in my home directory. In Linux I can start this WebLauncher program which pulls in the WebKit.so library. This library again

XWin -silent-dup-error does not work anymore

If Xwin.exe is started with -silent-dup-error flag and a second instance of Xwin.exe is also started with the -silent-dup-error flag a pop-up notification shows up with fatal errors. The output in the terminal (with -silent-dup-error flag) is the same as shown below with the -v flag. =

Terminal window hostname always showing

Is it possible to turn off the automatic hostname that the window manager is adding to terminal windows? Right now, on any machine I log into, they all use escape sequences to set the title of the window. However, the window manager (not sure which I have, looks like xorg-server) on the Cygwin sy