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  • Unfortunately, the download can be slow depending on the mirror you select (~30 min or more).
    • Set unnecessary package categories to 'Uninstall', e.g. KDE and Games.
  • Once installed, do the following.  This will make sure the maven build can access the two utilities
    • Open a CommandPrompt with admin privileges.
    • cd to the directory where you installed cygwin, i.e. c:\cygwin\bin
    • mklink mkisofs.exe genisoimage.exe
    • mklink python.exe python2.7.exe
  • After completing the install, you can run it again.  In that case, it will use the packages you last selected as the defaults.

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Step 3) Install Python 2.7 for Windows

CloudStack This step can be skipped if you made a symlink to python2.7.exe in the Cygwin installation.  CloudStack includes portions of Python code. I know you just installed the Cygwin Python but some parts of the maven build process also require a "native" python installation as it won't be able to access the Cygwin installation.

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