Is cygwin a pre-requisite for the ansvr bundle?

Sequence Generator Plate Solving
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I happened upon this page: ansvr - Astrometry.net Local Plate solver for Windows
and found the very convenient installer.
However, as the installer is doing its thing, I can’t figure out where all the files downloaded are being saved.
This begs the question:
Should cygwin and astrotortilla be installed prior to running the ansvr installer?

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: I found cygwin.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Astrometry.net Local Solver

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Daniel,

The astrometry.net local installer is fully self-contained, including a cygwin instance. There are no prerequisites.

Are you sure you found a cygwin.exe in there? There is a cygwin.bat but I am not aware of any cygwin.exe.

Andy

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Andy,
you are right - the exe is in fact located in the hidden appdata folder.
It wasn’t clear from the instruction page that the whole package was going to be installed - that’s great - thanks for making this freely available.

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Daniel,
Thanks for the feedback. I just updated the page to clarify that there are no prerequisites.
Andy