HOWTO: Nutch on Windows without Cygwin

[Jason Riffel <ja...@cipreporting.com>]

I recently wanted to run Nutch on Windows, but did not want to use 
Cygwin (required by Hadoop on Windows).  I took the time to analyze the 
requirements and come up with a very small native Win32 package that 
allows you to run Nutch without Cygwin on Windows.  I wrote a blog about 
it and the files can be downloaded from there:

http://riffelspot.com/nutch/nocygwin

A short synopsis is a small zip file you extract into your Nutch folder 
that gives you a nutch.bat file (same as the nutch bash script) and 
includes the required shell commands in native Win32 code instead of 
Cygwin binaries.  I hope this helps other people who might not want to 
use Cygwin

Jason Riffel
jason at cip reporting dot com