Cygwin installer displays the name, version, and description of packages on
the wizard, reading those information from setup.ini, and can download
packages for your sellection from the mirror site.
This script will extract the information of Cygwin packages from setup.ini
and download that package's file to the local installation directory,
which works with Powershell 2.0 and later.
The package information of which target names are specified with -Package,
-Category and/or -Software is extracted, led by x86 or x86_64 for
32-bit or 64-bit architecture. In addition to that, the information of packages
required by others is extracted with -Requires.
To extract the information of 32-bit cygwin and git package:
.\Extract-Cygwin.ps1 x86 -Package cygwin, git
With -Download, the package's file in the directory described on that
information is downloaded to the local from the mirror site of URL specified
with -Mirror or the country of the cuurent region if present.
Run the following two lines if you wish to use 64-bit packages of Base
category, download that files to D:\Cygwin, and install to C:\Cygwin:
.\Extract-Cygwin.ps1 x86_64 -Root D:\Cygwin -Category Base -Requires -Download
D:\Cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe -q -L -R C:\Cygwin -l D:\Cygwin -C All
To display the detailed information about this script:
man .\Extract-Cygwin.ps1 -Detailed
Extracting the information of Cygwin 32-bit or 64-bit package requires
setup.ini on x86 or x86_64 directory. However, this script can download
Cygwin installer and setup.ini with -Download.
Run the following line if any scripts can not be executed on your system:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process
This script is published under the MIT License.