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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<p>
mintty is copyright 2008-13 Andy Koppe, 2015 Thomas Wolff
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<p>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty;
without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
It is licensed under the terms of the
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">
GNU General Public License version 3</a> or later.
Updates and source code are available from the mintty home page at
<a href="http://mintty.github.io/">http://mintty.github.io/</a>.
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Mintty is based on parts of <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/">PuTTY</a> version 0.60 by Simon Tatham and contributors, available from <a href="http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60">http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60</a>. Big thanks to everyone involved. Thanks also to KDE's Oxygen team for the program icon.
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<h4>Running mintty</h4>
<p>
First off, instead of installing mintty manually, consider installing it through the MinGW installer, using <tt>mingw-get install msys-mintty</tt>.
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Otherwise, you need to ensure that Windows is able to find the MSYS DLL (<i>msys-1.0.dll</i>) when starting <i>mintty.exe</i>. There are several ways to do this:
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Start it from within an existing MSYS session.
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Create a shortcut to <i>msys.bat</i> with the additional parameter <code>--mintty</code>.
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Create a shortcut to <i>mintty.exe</i> with the parameter <code>/bin/bash -l</code>.
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Place <i>mintty.exe</i> alongside <i>msys-1.0.dll</i> in the MSYS <i>/bin</i> directory and start it from there.
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Add the MSYS <i>/bin</i> directory (e.g. <i>C:\MSYS\bin</i>) to the Windows <i>PATH</i> variable, which can be found under 'Environment Variables' on the 'Advanced' tab of the System Properties control panel.
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Invoke mintty as follows to obtain a login shell that sources all the usual startup scripts: <tt>mintty /bin/bash -l</tt>
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Invoking <i>mintty</i> with <i>--version</i> or <i>--help</i> will print version or usage information. The mintty manual can be found on the home page at <a href="http://mintty.github.io/">http://mintty.github.io/</a>.
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Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the <a href="https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues">issue tracker</a>.
General Cygwin questions should be sent to the <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Cygwin mailing list</a>.
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Enjoy!
<br>
Andy
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