Pip install not functioning on windows 7 Cygwin install

Question

I\'m having a terrible time of getting pip up and running on Cygwin which I just recently installed on my Windows 7 Computer. I am writing in the hope that anyone out there

Answer 1

There's a bug(?) in 64-bit Cygwin which causes ctypes.util to segfault when trying to find libuuid (/usr/bin/cyguuid-1.dll). The fix is to install libuuid-devel from Cygwin setup. I found this from an issue filed against requests.py, but it's noted (and worked around in different ways) in a few other places, too.