Run setup-x86_64.exe, you should simply download all the files you need. Since you will be download a lot of filesĪnd you may lose connection to the Internet, it's best to do this in 2 steps. If you get a screen asking you about permissions, please give permission to run the setup program.Ĭlick on the Next button in the Cygwin Setup window. Go to your Desktop, click open the Cygwin Setup folder and click on setup-x86_64.exe.

You need to create the 'Cygwin Setup' folder somewhere else. If you don't have more than 2GB of free disk space on your C: drive, If you have a 32-bit machine, pleaseĬygwin will need at least 2GB of disk space to download and an additional 4GB of disk space to install. (I'm assuming that your Windows 10 machine is a 64-bit machine. Save setup-x86_64.exe into the Cygwin Setup folder on your desktop. The setup-x86_64.exe link to download setup-x86_64.exe. Then point your browser to cygwin's home page, click on To make things easier to manage, let's create a folder on your Desktop and name it 'Cygwin Setup'. The file size is 2,666,770,828 bytes and its MD5 checksum is '804cee50f202ee51673814af67e6c838'.ĭouble-click on the ZIP file to unzip it into a folder called 'Cygwin Setup ' on your desktop. Save the downloaded file on your desktop. Googld Drive (just click on Download and then Download Anyway).' Cygwin-Setup-.zip' from either of the following two places:

If you are okay with running a pre-downloaded version of Cygwin (which should work just fine), then please download Please note that this can take over an hour to download all the files! If you would prefer to start from scratch, please follow the Download Cygwin From Scratch instructions below. The problem with this approach is that this version was created on and this may be out-dated. The quick way is to download a ZIP file that contains all the downloaded Cygwin setup file from the web.

Cygwin install instructions