Cygwin Ports

A large repository of open-source programs built for Cygwin, including X11 desktops, language interpreters, multimedia frameworks, cross-compiler toolchains, and much more. Also hosted here is the cygport tool for building Cygwin packages.

cygport releases and the Ports Git repositories are hosted here; Ports packages are available from the website.

Features

GNOME, KDE, MATE, XFCE, LXDE, Razor-Qt, ROX, and Sugar desktops
Falcon, Java, Mono, PHP, and PyPy interpreters
Modules and language bindings for Java, Lua, Mono, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, and Vala
GStreamer, MPD, MPlayer, VLC, Xine, and XMMS2 multimedia frameworks
Cross-compiler toolchains for Linux, MinGW, Solaris, and embedded systems

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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viberfast Posted 2013-06-25

Thanks a lot! It is very convenient and useful.

1 user found this review helpful.
ivanhutchins Posted 2013-06-12

Cygwin-ports works perfectly.

1 user found this review helpful.
rndgames Posted 2013-05-13

Excellent integration, lots of features and painless navigation.

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oid-3849979 Posted 2012-11-21

ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports can not connect to ftp server please fix and place mirro http to avoid error
steve8black Posted 2012-11-04

great project guys!

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Cygwin, Linux, Windows

Languages

English, Hebrew

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Console/Terminal, Gnome, KDE, X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C#, Java, PHP, Python, S/R, Tcl

Database Environment

Microsoft Access, MySQL, ODBC, Sybase, xBase

Related Categories

C# Business Software, C# Desktop Environment Software, C# Games, Python Business Software, Python Desktop Environment Software, Python Games, PHP Business Software, PHP Desktop Environment Software, PHP Games, Tcl Business Software, Tcl Desktop Environment Software, Tcl Games, Java Business Software, Java Desktop Environment Software, Java Games

Registered

2004-01-15

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