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Previously, Windows users with a "native" Python install were advised to avoid the Cygwin shell like the plague.

However, things should be better [http://hg.secondlife.com/autobuild/changeset/f6c25ce56f9f now].  We are now using the [http://packages.python.org/distribute/ distribute] extension of the python setuptools, so the autobuild application installed should now be equally executable by any shell.

If you want to run autobuild directly from a mercurial checkout without installing, we still provide the autobuild.cmd wrapper.  It can be used by executing the following:
 ln -s /path/to/autobuild/checkout/bin/autobuild.cmd ~/bin/autobuild
 export PATH="$PATH:~/bin/

However, as this is trickier to set up and more error prone, it is not the primary method that we recommend in [[Autobuild#Getting_Autobuild]].