Cygwin installation guide for using Dennou Ruby products

<Last modified: 2006-03-01 13:50:00 JST>

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.

In this page, we explain how to set up Cygwin for using Dennou Ruby products. (confirmed on Windows XP)

Installation with Cygwin Setup

1. Download the installer setup.exe from Cygwin official site.

2. Execute setup.exe.

3. Choose "Install from Internet".

4. Select installation directory.

For example, "D:\cygwin".

Check the following options:

• Install For -> All Users
• Default Text File Type -> Unix

5. Select local package directory.

For example, "D:\cygwin\setup".

6. Choose connection method.

Usually, "Use IE5 Settings".

7. Choose Download site.

For example, "ftp://ring.aist.go.jp". Choose one near you.

8. Select packages.

It is the easiest way to install all packages. Click the installation flag "Default" on category "All", then installation flags of the all categories are changed to "Install".

If your hard disk does not have enough capacity, select as following at least to use Dennou Ruby products:

• Change the install flags of the following categories to "Install": (Other categories' are "Default")
  • Devel
  • Gnome
  • Graphics
  • Libs
  • X11
• And choose the following packages:
  • Interpreters -- ruby
  • Shells -- tcsh
  • System -- rebase

9. After downloading packages, installation is started automatically.

10. Create Icons on the Desktop and Start Menu.

11. Installation is successfully done.

Running Cygwin/X

Click the Desktop icon of Cygwin. Cygwin terminal (command prompt) is coming up. Home directory is automatically set at the first execution of Cygwin terminal.

Type following command for running X server:

$ startx

X server icon is displayed on the Task Tray, and xterm is comes up. (X root window is not displayed. X client applications are directly displayed on Windows screen. )