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Well, I just installed this. I always assumed tmux wasn't compatible with Cygwin, but I guess it is.

Note that you can skip steps 2 and 3 if you install libevent-devel and libncurses-devel in step 1. The Cygwin provided versions of these packages are good enough (in fact, libevent is the same version.) Also, I didn't get any warnings when running autogen.sh, but I have all the available versions of autoconf and automake installed, so that might be why.

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You were right until very recently. If I recall correctly, tmux used to send file descriptors over sockets, something which isn't supported by cygwin. Pretty recently someone made a patch to tmux that allowed it to work without the unsupported behaviour.

I see. It would have been nice to see the problem fixed on the Cygwin side, but either way, it's great to be able to use tmux on Windows. I missed it.

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