Cygwin is free software that provides a Unix-like environment and software toolset to users of any modern 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. Cygwin consists of a Unix system call emulation library, cygwin1.dll, together with a vast set of GNU and other free software applications organized into a large number of optional packages. Among these packages are high-quality compilers and other software development tools, an X11 server, a complete X11 development toolkit, GNU emacs, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSSH (client and server), and much more, including everything needed to compile and use PhysioToolkit software under MS-Windows. Here are some related contents: How to install Ansible on Windows, how to view installed packages in Cygwin in Windows, and how to install Kerberos packages with Cygwin on Windows.
Note: Note: Cygwin does not provide a means for running GNU/Linux or other Unix binary executables under MS-Windows.
In order to run such software using Cygwin, that software must be compiled from its sources. Cygwin provides all of the components needed to do this in most cases; most POSIX-compliant software, including X11 applications, can easily be ported to MS-Windows using Cygwin.
Here are the various commands that can be used to determine the various versions of Cygwin.
$ cygcheck -c cygwin
$ uname –r
1. Using the “cygcheck -c Cygwin” command finds the version of the check the version of the cygwin package
2. Using the ‘uname –r” used to find the version of the kernel on a Linux system
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