Volker Zell writes: To run a precompiled version of man with Cygwin 1.5.24 and above you will need the following utilities o man, bash, cygwin, bzip2, coreutils, gawk, groff, gzip and less Click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up the above mentioned packages from the different categories. Building from source ==================== Adjust the paths in configure and man2html/Makefile.in to suit your installation. man-1.6e builds with: CC="gcc -O2 -DNONLS -DLC_MESSAGES=6" ./configure +fhs +lang all then issue: make then: make install Edit the installed man.conf to suit your site.