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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User Reviews

  • Thanks a lot! It is very convenient and useful.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Cygwin-ports works perfectly.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Excellent integration, lots of features and painless navigation.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports can not connect to ftp server please fix and place mirro http to avoid error
  • great project guys!
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Cygwin, Linux, BSD, Windows

Languages

Hebrew, English

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

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

Programming Language

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

Database Environment

MySQL, Sybase, xBase, Microsoft Access, ODBC

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Registered

2004-01-15