From 3f0d8e6b09d33a026df3ef403e1c8a264637d71c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amber Brown <hawkowl@atleastfornow.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:14:30 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove documentation referencing Cygwin (#3873)

---
 .gitignore            |  1 +
 README.rst            | 38 +++++++-------------------------------
 changelog.d/3873.misc |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/3873.misc

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1718185384..a725725235 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 .DS_Store
 _trial_temp/
+_trial_temp*/
 logs/
 dbs/
 *.egg
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 9c0f9c09c8..5547f617ba 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ if you prefer.
 
 In case of problems, please see the _`Troubleshooting` section below.
 
-There is an offical synapse image available at 
+There is an offical synapse image available at
 https://hub.docker.com/r/matrixdotorg/synapse/tags/ which can be used with
 the docker-compose file available at `contrib/docker <contrib/docker>`_. Further information on
 this including configuration options is available in the README on
@@ -459,37 +459,13 @@ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/misc/matrix-
 
 Windows Install
 ---------------
-Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages:
-
-- gcc
-- git
-- libffi-devel
-- openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
-- python
-- python-setuptools
-
-The content repository requires additional packages and will be unable to process
-uploads without them:
-
-- libjpeg8
-- libjpeg8-devel
-- zlib
-
-If you choose to install Synapse without these packages, you will need to reinstall
-``pillow`` for changes to be applied, e.g. ``pip uninstall pillow`` ``pip install
-pillow --user``
-
-Troubleshooting:
-
-- You may need to upgrade ``setuptools`` to get this to work correctly:
-  ``pip install setuptools --upgrade``.
-- You may encounter errors indicating that ``ffi.h`` is missing, even with
-  ``libffi-devel`` installed. If you do, copy the ``.h`` files:
-  ``cp /usr/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include/*.h /usr/include``
-- You may need to install libsodium from source in order to install PyNacl. If
-  you do, you may need to create a symlink to ``libsodium.a`` so ``ld`` can find
-  it: ``ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsodium.a /usr/lib/libsodium.a``
 
+If you wish to run or develop Synapse on Windows, the Windows Subsystem For
+Linux provides a Linux environment on Windows 10 which is capable of using the
+Debian, Fedora, or source installation methods. More information about WSL can
+be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 for
+Windows 10 and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
+for Windows Server.
 
 Troubleshooting
 ===============
diff --git a/changelog.d/3873.misc b/changelog.d/3873.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8104b5c085
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/3873.misc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove documentation regarding installation on Cygwin, the use of WSL is 
+recommended instead.