Pip not working on Cygwin

Question

I am trying to get Flask working under Cygwin, but I am unable to get pip to work. I succesfully managed to get easy_install working and even used that to install pip. As far as I can tell the install went well.

Here is the output:

$ easy_install pip
Searching for pip
Best match: pip 1.5.2
Processing pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg
pip 1.5.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing pip script to /usr/bin
Installing pip2.7 script to /usr/bin
Installing pip2 script to /usr/bin

Using /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.2-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for pip
Finished processing dependencies for pip

However when I try to do anything via pip, it doesn't do anything. For example:

$ pip install flask

There is no output. I'm really not sure where to start.

Answer 1

I had this exact problem, and by following the link @iljau posted, I saw the recommendation to install the libuuid-devel and the binutils packages on Cygwin, and it solved the problem for me.