Cygwin packages that I'm sometimes interested in

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The real list is located here: https://paperlined.org/new_computer_setup/windows/cygwin.md

a basic build environment

• overall packages that might install the most important things — cygport or clang
• make
• automake
• gcc-core
• gcc-g++

apt-cyg

apt-cyg allows you to install Cygwin packages from the command line. To install it, just run:

install_apt-cyg