[PATCH 0/5] cygwin: 6.21 faq-programming.xml edits

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Wed Jun 25 01:39:03 GMT 2025


From: John Haugabook <johnhaugabook@gmail.com>

This set of patches applies changes to faq-programming.xml at section 6.21 "How do I build Cygwin on my own?". The changes include:
  1. Adding 5 additional required packages
  2. Add ready-made commands to run setup-x86_64.exe to install required packages relevant to the use case
  3. Additional paragraph about the build process and an estimate of install time
  4. An install tip for building cygwin from newlib-cygwin
  5. And a typo fix.
  
The details for each patch are expanded further in the commit message included in the patch. Also, you can visit the support repo that illustrates the rendered and doc build changes:
-  https://github.com/jhauga/patch-newlib-cygwin-faq

John Haugabook (5):
  cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 add 5 required packages
  cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 ready-made download commands
  cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 para about process and time
  cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 install tips
  cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 unmatched parenthesis

 winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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