fastcyg

One-command Cygwin installation with essential development packages

Downloads and configures Cygwin with development tools, adds to PATH, creates Start Menu shortcut, and configures Windows Terminal profile. No administrator privileges required.

📦 What's Included

Base Cygwin installation plus:

• bind-utils - DNS lookup utilities
• curl - Command-line HTTP client
• fzf - Fuzzy finder
• fzf-bash - Bash integration for fzf
• fzf-bash-completion - Tab completion with fzf
• git - Version control system
• inetutils - Network utilities
• make - Build automation tool
• nano - Simple text editor
• rsync - File synchronization
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer
• wget - File download utility

🚀 Usage

Download and run directly from GitHub

Invoke-Expression (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/SSLbits/fastcyg/raw/refs/heads/main/cyginstall.ps1").Content

Or download first, then run

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/SSLbits/fastcyg/raw/refs/heads/main/cyginstall.ps1" -OutFile "cygwin-setup.ps1"
.\cygwin-setup.ps1