Integrating Cygwin with VSCode in Windows

Installation

Follow guide from Cygwin.

Add terminal profile in settings.json

Add new profile for cygwin, this will register a new option when we choose to launch a new integrated terminal.

{
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "PowerShell": {
            "source": "PowerShell",
            "icon": "terminal-powershell"
        },
        "Command Prompt": {
            "path": ["${env:windir}\\Sysnative\\cmd.exe", "${env:windir}\\System32\\cmd.exe"],
            "args": [],
            "icon": "terminal-cmd"
        },
        "Git Bash": {
            "source": "Git Bash"
        },
        "Cygwin": {
            "path": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe",
            "args": ["--login"],
            "overrideName": true
        }
    },
}

Then we got a new option to create a integrated terminal.

INFO

For more information: Terminal Profiles.

Change default working directory of cygwin in .bashrc

The default working directory of cygwin is {installation-path}\home\{username} like C:\cygwin64\home\anon.

You might like to launch cygwin with working directory as the root of current user.

• Open cygwin, make sure you're at ~

cd ~

• Execute this line into .bashrc.

touch .bashrc && echo 'cd /cygdrive/c/users/{username}' >> .bashrc

• Check the content is successfully appended.

cat .bashrc

• Launch a new cygwin instance, it will start at your user root.

Using System Proxy from Windows

Switch to ~ , append http_proxy and https_proxy to .bashrc.

cd ~ && echo "export http_proxy=<proxy:port>" >> .bashrc && echo "export https_proxy=<proxy:port>" >> .bashrc