More cygwin installations

More cygwin installations

[Silver Zachara]

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Hi,

can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2

I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar.
Or there have to be only one cygwin installation?

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Re: More cygwin installations

[Ken Brown]

On 9/24/2016 9:49 AM, Silver Zachara wrote:
> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2

Yes.  I do it routinely for testing purposes.

Ken


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Re: More cygwin installations

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Silver Zachara!

> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2

> I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar.
> Or there have to be only one cygwin installation?

You MAY use multiple parallel installations. But it is least advisable for
people unfamiliar with environment, clashes may occur and you would have a
hard(-er) time figuring them out.
If you indeed need test installations, a virtual machine is the better route,
IMO.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, September 25, 2016 11:15:17

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: More cygwin installations

[Silver Zachara]

I went this path yesterday, it's clearer solution from my view, I think
that cygwin have to be adjusted for parallel installations and I don't
know if he does.
As you wrote, it will work in more cases, but there can be some edge
cases, when there can be some problem, may be some services, wm is
certainty :-)

On 25.09.2016 10:17, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Silver Zachara!
> 
>> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
>> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2
> 
>> I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar.
>> Or there have to be only one cygwin installation?
> 
> You MAY use multiple parallel installations. But it is least advisable for
> people unfamiliar with environment, clashes may occur and you would have a
> hard(-er) time figuring them out.
> If you indeed need test installations, a virtual machine is the better route,
> IMO.
> 
> 


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Re: More cygwin installations

[marco atzeri]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Silver Zachara!
>
>> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
>> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2
>
>> I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar.
>> Or there have to be only one cygwin installation?
>
> You MAY use multiple parallel installations. But it is least advisable for
> people unfamiliar with environment, clashes may occur and you would have a
> hard(-er) time figuring them out.

I don not see such big risk with multiple installations.
Basic rules appliy:
- separate PATH between the diffent installations.
 defining CYGWIN_NOWINPATH help on it
- don't mix services as they will be called all in the same way by
  the different installation.


> If you indeed need test installations, a virtual machine is the better route,
> IMO.

Usually if Virtual Machines are possible there are less motives to use cygwin;
people developing for cygwin are of course the exception.

> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin

Regards Marco

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