Packages for configuration in Cygwin about form HOT 3 OPEN

Thank you for sharing your experience with Cygwin.

It sounds like a defect on apt-cyg not to install necessary dependencies (transcode-open/apt-cyg#110) and you may need to install a fork (here or others), but your solution may be useful for other Cygwin users.

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I tested that apt-cyg command only install targeted single package, without checking dependencies(Not like pacman in msys2 and it literaly cause me LOTS OF DAMAGE on installing X11 etc.). If any required reliable packages is needed for the toolchain may to re-run the Cygwin installer setup-x86_64.exe and install it will do.

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I am still not sure which apt-cyg you guys are using, but I have tried Cygwin and a version of apt-cyg in Windows Sandbox. It seems working well.

The apt-cyg was installed (for temporary testing) by

curl https://github.com/kou1okada/apt-cyg/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz | tar xz
ln -s "$(realpath apt-cyg-master/apt-cyg)" /usr/local/bin/

and I had to install libiconv and wget to use apt-cyg.

That being said, I agree that using setup-x86_64.exe is the safest way to install the required packages.

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