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While this shouldn't be that difficult in theory, there are lots of small issues that break stuff.

Todo:

• Fix vista linking issues, currently tried cygwin v3.3.1-1 and v3.3.6-1 with the newest and oldest versions of GCC, binutils and make available on each. Cygwin v3.2.0-1 with updates from 20210409 works while with updates from 20210410, it doesn't. Fixed in e938fb9.
• Fix issues with getrandom on xp sp3 with cygwin v2.5.2-1 as it was added in 2.7 https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new.html. Ideally without modifying cosmo like I did the first time. Fixed in 24bb017.
• Fix blink jit breaking in cygwin x86_64. Partially fixed in 74ca808.
• Look into warnings during build. They are in lines.c and pty.c. pty.c. Warnings are fixed in 1bb8175 and 74ca808 but perhaps could be done better to actually support full unicode on windows.
• Figure out issues with blinkenlights. Caused by issues with terminal attribute ioctls, PtyAppendLine and read. Ioctls are fixed in 75b11e2.
• Figure out issues with applications with prompts e.g. redbean and the python interpreter causing input to just be echoed. Fixed in 74ca808.
• Fix make complaining about depend files during build.
• Check for compat with x86_32 windows.
         Windows pre XP SP3: Leaving until a later commit.
  • Windows XP SP3: Use Cygwin v2.5.2-1 32 bit. See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2016-August/007366.html.
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition WoW64: Use Cygwin v2.5.2-1 32 bit.https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2016-August/007366.html.
  • Windows Vista: Use Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 7: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 8: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 8.1: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 10: Use Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 11: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
• Check for compat with x86_64 even with windows 8.1+ version of cosmo.
  • Windows XP Professional x64, Edition: Currently broken, probably Cygwin v2.5.2-1 64 bit. https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2016-August/007366.html.
  • Windows Vista: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.3.6-1 64 bit, See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html.
  • Windows 7: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit. https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-December/010821.html
  • Windows 8: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit. https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-December/010821.html
  • Windows 8.1: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit.
  • Windows 10: Jit broken, can use Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit provided -j is used.
  • Windows 11: Untested, probably Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit.
• Keep up to date with jart/master and open a pull request. Done jart#23.

Future todo:

• Consider fixing Unicode support by always using utf 16 or 32.
• Look into using gnulib as this should add many of the missing macros.
• Find a version of cygwin >= 2.5.2 that produces binaries that run on i686 and x86_64 windows xp+.
• Look into bundling cygwin1.dll with produced binaries https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.bundling-cygwin. Looks like static builds are not supported and so the only option would be to put both the executable and cygwin1.dll in a self extracting executable.
• Look into i486 cygwin to align with blink.
• Find the oldest version of make that works with blink and use it to build blink for windows 2000 and xp < sp3 with cygwin v1.7.18-1, probably 4.1 or 4.2. Someone mentioned using make 3.81 on macos and that worked. May also need to get a newer build of GCC for C11 compact.

Ignore this for now, I stopped when I just kept finding issue after issue during make check.
Testing results using this script:

Note that any test could have outputted nothing due to jit issues and not be marked as a failure.

Cygwin mirrors:
Cygwin v2.5.2-1 32 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223.
Cygwin v2.5.2-1 64 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2016/08/30/104235.
Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457.
Cygwin v3.3.6-1 64 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2022/12/03/135449.
Cygwin v3.4.3-1 64 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2023/01/07/105740.

Cygwin setup files:
Setup v2.874 32 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86-2.874.exe.
Setup v2.874 64 bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86_64-2.874.exe.
Setup v2.923 32 bit: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.923.x86.exe.
Setup v2.924 64 bit: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.924.x86_64.exe.

Basic setup instructions
Check recommended Cygwin version for a given Windows version and arch above, then go to the ctm page for that version and take note of the recommended setup version and download from above.
Run downloaded setup from command line with -X --site ABOVE MIRROR.
If using Cygwin v3.3.6-1 32 bit then also add --allow-unsupported-windows.
Fill out the first few pages as desired and then ensure gcc-core, make, binutils and anything else desired are downloaded.