Documentation

Cygwin Documentation

• Cygwin User's Guide
• Cygwin API Reference
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file for Cygwin.

Some work remains to be done in documenting the Cygwin API. In addition to the Cygwin API Reference and information in the FAQ, you may want to check source code file winsup/cygwin.din which lists all of the Cygwin DLL exports.

We have some preliminary docs on how to profile the Cygwin DLL.

Information on building and using DLLs is here.

Also note that there is quite a lot of useful information in the project mailing list archives.

Stabs

The tools use a debugging info format called stabs. You can also find this document in GDB (GNU Debugger) distributions. Other preformatted versions (.txt, PostScript) are available from the ftp location.

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