If you don't need full Cygwin and latest version, coLinux people create minimum package. I don't use this, and I don't know well. Maybe it is worth looking at. http://www.colinux.org/wiki/index.php/XCoLinux http://www.digitalfire.co.za/index.php?page=18 -- Kensuke Matsuzaki mailto:zakki@peppermint.jp http://peppermint.jp