On 04/04/2017 13:19, Wayne Barron wrote:
 > You stated: "Short of moving to a Linux=bases platform"

 > I take it you have the "cygwinports"
 > Successfully running in a Windows Environment.
 > Could you please share, how to set-up cygwinports in Windows?

Cygwinports is not Cygwin.

Cygwin is alive and kicking; cygwinports.org was closed down last
week (or so). Please see http://cygwinports.org/ for reasons.

Regards,
Chris