The dynamic launcher for Cygwin

DynCyg is a dynamic launcher for Cygwin. It provides the following features not present in a standard Cygwin installation:

  • Maintain multiple Cygwin installations under a single Windows login.
  • Create distributions that do not require use of Cygwin's setup.exe
  • Login using an alternative user name or home directory
  • Supports Cygwin in dynamic login environments such as LDAP

There are several downloads available. This chart summarizes each component of DynCyg. Details are available for each component.

Component Description Source Binary Status
DynCyg The core program. A console application. * * 100%
(CVS)
Configuration The default configuration for distribution which handles most situations. * * 50%
StartCyg A GUI front-end to DynCyg with many features. * * 0% (N/A)
MiniCyg A very small Cygwin distrubtion including only `bash` and `ls`.   * 0% (N/A)
MiniXCyg A smallish Cygwin distrubtion including only `bash`, `ls`, XFree86, and Xfce.   * 0% (N/A)

Note: The status column is provided for early adopters. Once all components have at least reached alpha status and been released, this column will be removed.