> I asked this question in the cygwin mailing list, but that list appears to > be dead. There has been no mail from anyone but me in months. > > There's nothing special about the installer. You just need to copy the appropriate files to a directory and it works. You can use the open source NSIS, or Microsoft's MSI Viusal Studio Installer 1.1 or higher. If you want to know how to create the directory structure, just download a Windows Binary installer and copy the directory structure. Henry