How to run squid in cygwin

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I've got cygwin installed on a windows machine & I'm trying to run squid. But when I run /usr/sbin/squid -i it does nothing, no response, no log files, nothing. I've tried searching for solutions but all I've found is one particularly hostile thread on the squid maling list. The doco just says to run with the -i to install as a windows service

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There's no need to run Squid in Cygwin; Guido Serassio maintains binary installers for Windows, invlufi. Try using one of those instead; it has the same exact interface as the Linux versions.

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