It used to be like that... not anymore. Cygwin works fine with multiple installations these days [https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.multiple-copies htt

It used to be like that... not anymore. Cygwin works fine with multiple installations these days [https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.multiple-copies https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.multiple-copies] The thing that wont work is if you try to mix and match a dll from one installation with binaries from another, but I think you can agree that that situation is fair. You just need your paths setup correctly.