# Bioruby on cygwin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bioruby-on-cygwin/87348>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bioruby-on-cygwin/87348 "2007-03-01T23:00:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bioruby-on-cygwin/87348/1 "2007-03-01T23:00:49Z")

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Hello,

I want to do local BLAST on cygwin with BioRuby. When I do this, does  
BLAST have to be installed through cygwin rather than windows?

I know this is not the right group to ask, but I am also having  
problem installing BLAST on cygwin. I found

[http://mtc.epfl.ch/software-tools/blast/doc/blast002.html](http://mtc.epfl.ch/software-tools/blast/doc/blast002.html)

and installed OCaml on cygwin, but I cannot excute

make distclean

because there is no “distclean”? No idea what to do.

Thank you for your help.  
MW