As part of fixing bugs 7555 & 7707, we’ve deprecated our Cygwin Win32 build environment.

Everyone here is building on MSYS (and you should be too!), and longer term it will just be a lot easier for us to support one build environment.

We’ve updated the build instructions, and it’s likely that Cygwin will continue to work for a little while longer, but don’t expect it to be supported. Now would be a great time to start looking at MSYS, the build environment is simple to setup, and we’ve got detailed instructions. As always, post on the forum or ping us on IRC if you’re having problems.