How to best integrate Emacs and Cygwin?

Question

There are a ton of ways to integrate Cygwin with Emacs on Windows. EmacsWiki shows a few ideas. Here are the options that I\'ve found:

1. Use the Emacs that com

Answer 1

Build emacs from source:

-Download the latest stable release (24.5 as of this writing).

-Unzip and cd into the emacs folder

-Run these steps in order:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-w32
$ make
$ make install

-Copy emacs.exe, by hand, from the "emacs folder"/src to cygwin/bin

-Run emacs:

$ emacs&