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<chapter id="setup"><title>Setting Up Cygwin</title>

<sect1><title>Cygwin Contents</title>

<para>The following packages are included in the native Win32
release of GNUPro:</para>

<para>GNUPro development tools: binutils, bison, byacc, dejagnu,
diff, expect, flex, gas, gcc, gdb, itcl, ld, libstdc++, make, patch,
tcl, tix, tk</para>

<para>GNUPro unsupported tools: ash, bash, bzip2, diff, fileutils,
findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, m4, sed, shellutils, tar, textutils,
time</para>

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<sect1 id="installing-binaries"><title>Installing the binary release</title>

<para>Load the GNUPro CD-ROM and run the installer.  It will
take you through the installation process, starting with asking for
your install location.  Once the installation is complete, there will
be a new Program Files folder that you can use to obtain a shell
from which you can run the tools.</para>

<para>There are two remaining thing you should do from this
prompt. First, you need to type <command>mkdir -p /tmp</command> to
ensure that a temp directory exists for programs that expect to find
one there.</para>

<para>Second, depending on how you intend to use the tools, various
programs may need to be able to find `/bin/sh'. You should `mkdir -p
/bin' and put a copy of `sh.exe' there, removing the older version, if
present.  Note that you can use the `mount' utility to select which
drive letter is mounted as `/'.</para>

<para>If you should ever want to uninstall the tools, you may do so
via the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel.</para>

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