CygwinPortable

Configuration files to make Cygwin portable on a USB flash drive.

Setup

Let's assume that your USB flash drive is on E:.

Install the PortableApps platform to your flash drive.
Create a folder at E:\PortableApps\CygwinPortable.
Download Cygwin and place setup.exe in the directory you just created. Rename it to cygwinConfig.exe (this allows you to run it without administrator privileges).
Install Cygwin.
- Set the root directory to E:\PortableApps\CygwinPortable.
- Install for "Just me".
- Set the local package directory to E:\PortableApps\CygwinPortable\packages.
- Besides the defaults, install git, vim, source-highlight and the entire X11 category.
- Do not create shortcuts when you get to the last screen of the install.

Launch Cygwin-Terminal. Clone this repo into the root Cygwin directory:

 $ cd /
 $ git init
 $ git remote add origin git://github.com/ntmoe/CygwinPortable.git
 $ git pull origin master

Link the portable-ized configuration files (and some handy scripts that I use) to their proper locations:

 $ cd ~
 $ rm .bashrc .minttyrc /etc/profile
 $ ln -s /Other/bashrc ~/.bashrc
 $ ln -s /Other/dircolors ~/.dircolors
 $ ln -s /Other/minttyrc ~/.minttyrc
 $ ln -s /Other/profile /etc/profile
 $ ln -s /Other/cyg-wrapper.sh /bin/cyg-wrapper.sh
 $ ln -s /Other/startSumatra.sh /bin/startSumatra.sh

Now if you go to the PortableApps menu and refresh it, three Cygwin utilities should show up, those being:
- Cygwin Setup
- Cygwin Terminal
- Start XWin Server
If you want to set your USERNAME:

Go to App/CygwinPortable
Change line 23 in CygwinTerminal.bat and XWinServer.bat to your username.

Kovrinic/CygwinPortable

CygwinPortable

Setup