You want to run oer on Windows? With Cygwin you can. Since there isn't a Cygwin version of MySQL, you can only run the plain oer version for now. Cygwin is a GNU/UNIX emulator for Windows. Here is how you can get oer running with Cygwin: - Download Cygwin from the Cygwin site http://cygwin.com/setup.exe - Run setup.exe - Flag under "Devel" the following packages (only BIN required) * autoconf * gcc * make - Flag under "Libs" the following packages (only BIN required) * crypt - Proceed to install - Download the newest oer archive (oer-1.0-xx.tar.gz) and place it into your Cygwin home dir (for example C:\Cygwin\home\Administrator) - Start Cygwin: Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell - If you want to run oer 1.0-63 or newer you will have to install the IPv6 extensions for Cygwin available at http://win6.jp/Cygwin/ - Ungzip & untar the oer archive with: "tar xvzf oer-1.0-xx.tar.gz" - Go to the oer-dist dir by writing "cd oer-dist" - For the remaining installation steps see INSTALL in oer-dist