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authorAlexander Walters <tritium@sdamon.com>2015-06-15 01:16:01 -0400
committerAlexander Walters <tritium@sdamon.com>2015-06-15 01:16:01 -0400
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Cygwin is huge and slow. File for Windows does not go through a posix translation layer, and are native windows libraries. It is much less of a pain in the butt to use File for Windows.
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### Dependencies
-On Windows, install Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/install.html). To find
-the libraries, either add <your-cygwin-install>/bin to the $PATH or
-copy cygwin1.dll, cygz.dll, and cygmagic-1.dll to C:\Windows\System32
+On Windows, copy magic1.dll, regex2.dll, and zlib1.dll onto your PATH from the Binaries and Dependencies zipfiles provided by the [File for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm) project.
On OSX: