Recommended set of packages for Cygwin64 ---------------------------------------- The list of packages is meant for the 64-bits version of Cygwin. Notes: - You often need the "devel" package to build programs using a particular package. - The list below is an approximate one, derived from the installation information. Packages may have dependencies, so that more is installed than merely the list given here. Category Devel: binutils cmake - Specific to Cygwin coreutils gcc-core - GNU C compiler gcc-fortran - GNU Fortran compiler gcc-g++ - GNU C++ compiler gcc-ada - GNU Ada compiler diffutils git - Git client gtk libLASi libQt4 X11 libcairo-devel libfreetype-devel libgnat - Ada runtime library libgtk-devel - For Gtk toolkit libpango-devel libqhull-devel libshp-devel - ESRI shapefiles libwx_baseu3.0_0-devel - wxWidgets libwx_gtk3u3.0-devel - wxWidgets lua-devel - Lua make - Make utility ocaml - Ocaml (does not currently work - missing components) octave-devel - Octave (MATLAB like) pkg-config python3-devel python3-numpy python-pyqt4-devel - (or pyqt5, whichever version of Qt matches) python-sip-devel qt4-devel-tools - Qt4 (or 5) qt4-qtconfig swig tar - (possibly part of basic installation) tcl-devel - Tcl tcl-itcl-devel - Itcl tcl-itk-devel - Itk tcl-iwidgets - widget set for Tcl/Tk based on Itcl/Itk tcl-tk-devel - Tk