diff --git a/CMakeCPack.cmake b/CMakeCPack.cmake
index 4d7c6fddf..47bb7cf2f 100644
--- a/CMakeCPack.cmake
+++ b/CMakeCPack.cmake
@@ -190,31 +190,6 @@ if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/CPack.cmake")
     set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "ccmake" "CMake")
   endif()
 
-  # cygwin specific packaging stuff
-  if(CYGWIN)
-    # setup the cygwin package name
-    set(CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME cmake)
-    # setup the name of the package for cygwin cmake-2.4.3
-    set(CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME
-      "${CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME}-${CMake_VERSION}")
-    # the source has the same name as the binary
-    set(CPACK_SOURCE_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME ${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME})
-    # Create a cygwin version number in case there are changes for cygwin
-    # that are not reflected upstream in CMake
-    set(CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER 1 CACHE STRING "patch number for CMake cygwin packages")
-    mark_as_advanced(CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER)
-    # These files are required by the cmCPackCygwinSourceGenerator and the files
-    # put into the release tar files.
-    set(CPACK_CYGWIN_BUILD_SCRIPT
-      "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME}-${CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER}.sh")
-    set(CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_FILE
-      "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME}-${CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER}.patch")
-    # include the sub directory cmake file for cygwin that
-    # configures some files and adds some install targets
-    # this file uses some of the package file name variables
-    include(Utilities/Release/Cygwin/CMakeLists.txt)
-  endif()
-
   set(CPACK_WIX_UPGRADE_GUID "8ffd1d72-b7f1-11e2-8ee5-00238bca4991")
 
   if(MSVC AND NOT "$ENV{WIX}" STREQUAL "")
diff --git a/Source/CPack/cygwin.readme b/Source/CPack/cygwin.readme
deleted file mode 100644
index c0cd4b913..000000000
--- a/Source/CPack/cygwin.readme
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-http://cygwin.com/setup.html
-
-
-Need to produce two tar files:
-
-Source-
-
-- create subdirs
-- copy src
-- duplicate src
-- configure files into duplicate src
-   CPack.cygwin-readme.in
-   CPack.cygwin-install.sh.in
-   CPack.setup.hint.in
-- diff duplicate src and orig src
-- write diff into toplevel
-- create tar file call super class
-
-cmake-2.2.3-1
-
-
-1. a source release
-cmake-2.2.3-2-src.tar.bz2
-
-cmake-2.2.3-2.patch  has cmake-2.2.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/cmake.README cmake-2.2.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/setup.hint
-cmake-2.2.3-2.sh  -> script to create cygwin release
-cmake-2.2.3.tar.bz2  -> unmodified cmake sources for 2.2.3
-
-
-
-
-
-2 a binary release
-cmake-2.2.3-2.tar.bz2
-
-normal binary release with use as the root of the tree:
-
-Here is the bootstrap command used:
-
-  ${SOURCE_DIR}/bootstrap --prefix=/usr --datadir=/share/cmake-${VER} \
-                          --docdir=/share/doc/cmake-${VER} --mandir=/share/man
-
-CMAKE_DOC_DIR    /share/doc/${PKG}-${VER}
-CMAKE_MAN_DIR    /share/man
-CMAKE_DATA_DIR   /share/${PKG}-${VER}
-
-Here is the directory stucture:
-
-usr/bin/cmake.exe
-usr/share/doc/cmake-2.2.3/MANIFEST    ***
-usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cmake-2.2.3-2.README   ****
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3/Modules
-
-
-
-usr/bin
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3/include
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3/Modules/Platform
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3/Modules
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3/Templates
-usr/share/cmake-2.2.3
-usr/share/doc/cmake-2.2.3
-usr/share/doc/Cygwin
-usr/share/doc
-usr/share/man/man1
-usr/share/man
-usr/share
-usr
-
diff --git a/Templates/cygwin-package.sh.in b/Templates/cygwin-package.sh.in
deleted file mode 100755
index 69b6c0f6f..000000000
--- a/Templates/cygwin-package.sh.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# this is a sample shell script used for building a cmake
-# based project for a cygwin setup package.
-
-# get the current directory
-TOP_DIR=`cd \`echo "$0" | sed -n '/\//{s/\/[^\/]*$//;p;}'\`;pwd`
-
-# create build directory
-mkdirs()
-{
-  (
-  mkdir -p "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build"
-  )
-}
-
-# cd into
-# untar source tree and apply patch
-prep()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR" &&
-  tar xvfj @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@.tar.bz2
-  patch -p0 < "@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@.patch" &&
-  mkdirs
-  )
-}
-
-# configure the build tree in .build directory
-# of the source tree
-conf()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  cmake ..
-  )
-}
-
-# build the package in the .build directory
-build()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  make &&
-  make test
-  )
-}
-
-# clean the build tree
-clean()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  make clean
-  )
-}
-
-# create the package
-pkg()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  cpack &&
-  mv @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@.tar.bz2 "$TOP_DIR"
-  )
-}
-
-# create the source package
-spkg()
-{
- (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  cpack --config  CPackSourceConfig.cmake &&
-  mv @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@-src.tar.bz2 "$TOP_DIR"
-  )
-}
-
-# clean up
-finish()
-{
-  (
-  rm -rf "@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@"
-  )
-}
-
-case $1 in
-  prep)         prep    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  mkdirs)       mkdirs  ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  conf)         conf    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  build)        build   ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  clean)        clean   ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  package)      pkg     ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  pkg)          pkg     ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  src-package)  spkg    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  spkg)         spkg    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  finish)       finish  ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  all) (
-       prep && conf && build && pkg && spkg && finish ;
-       STATUS=$?
-       ) ;;
-  *) echo "Error: bad argument (all or one of these: prep mkdirs conf build clean package pkg src-package spkg finish)" ; exit 1 ;;
-esac
-exit ${STATUS}
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/CMakeLists.txt b/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 73a8220b9..000000000
--- a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-file(GLOB INSTALLED_CURSES /usr/bin/cygncurses-*.dll)
-set(MAX 0)
-foreach(f ${INSTALLED_CURSES})
-  if(NOT "${f}" MATCHES "\\+")
-    string(REGEX REPLACE ".*-([0-9]*).dll" "\\1" NUMBER "${f}")
-    if(NUMBER GREATER MAX)
-      set(MAX ${NUMBER})
-    endif()
-  endif()
-endforeach()
-string(REGEX REPLACE "/usr/bin/" "\\1" NUMBER "${f}")
-set(CMAKE_NCURSES_VERSION "libncurses${MAX}")
-message(STATUS "Using curses version: libncurses${MAX}")
-configure_file("${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-setup.hint.in"
-  "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/setup.hint")
-configure_file("${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/README.cygwin.in"
-  "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/Docs/${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME}-${CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER}.README")
-install_files(/share/doc/Cygwin FILES
-  ${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/Docs/${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME}-${CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER}.README
-  )
-configure_file("${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-package.sh.in"
-  ${CPACK_CYGWIN_BUILD_SCRIPT})
-configure_file("${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-patch.diff.in"
-  ${CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_FILE})
-
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/README.cygwin.in b/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/README.cygwin.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 17cf2a1e6..000000000
--- a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/README.cygwin.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-cmake
---------------------------------------
-Runtime requirements:
-  cygwin-1.5.21(0.156/4/2) or newer
-
-Build requirements
-  cygwin-1.5.21(0.156/4/2) or newer
-  make
-
-Canonical homepage:
-  https://cmake.org
-
-Canonical download:
-  ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake/
-
-------------------------------------
-
-Build instructions:
-  unpack @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@-src.tar.bz2
-    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
-         unpacked under /usr/src automatically
-  cd /usr/src
-  ./@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@.sh all
-
-This will create:
-  /usr/src/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@.tar.bz2
-  /usr/src/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@-src.tar.bz2
-
--------------------------------------------
-
-Port Notes:
-
-The directory /usr/share/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/include is purposely not
-located at /usr/include/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@ or /usr/include/cmake.  The
-files it contains are not meant for inclusion in any C or C++ program.
-They are used for compiling dynamically loadable CMake commands inside
-projects that provide them.  CMake will automatically provide the
-proper include path when the files are needed.
-
-------------------
-
-Cygwin port maintained by: CMake Developers <cmake@www.cmake.org>
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-package.sh.in b/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-package.sh.in
deleted file mode 100755
index dff27f14d..000000000
--- a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-package.sh.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-TOP_DIR=`cd \`echo "$0" | sed -n '/\//{s/\/[^\/]*$//;p;}'\`;pwd`
-
-# create build directory
-mkdirs()
-{
-  (
-  mkdir -p "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build"
-  )
-}
-
-# cd into
-# untar source tree and apply patch
-prep()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR" &&
-  tar xvfj @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@.tar.bz2
-  patch -p0 < "@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@.patch" &&
-  mkdirs
-  )
-}
-
-conf()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  ../bootstrap --parallel=2
-  )
-}
-
-build()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  make -j2 &&
-  make test
-  )
-}
-
-clean()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  make clean
-  )
-}
-
-pkg()
-{
-  (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  ./bin/cpack &&
-  mv @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@.tar.bz2 "$TOP_DIR"
-  )
-}
-
-spkg()
-{
- (
-  cd "$TOP_DIR/@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@/.build" &&
-  ./bin/cpack --config  CPackSourceConfig.cmake &&
-  mv @CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@-@CPACK_CYGWIN_PATCH_NUMBER@-src.tar.bz2 "$TOP_DIR"
-  )
-}
-
-finish()
-{
-  (
-  rm -rf "@CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME@"
-  )
-}
-
-case $1 in
-  prep)         prep    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  mkdirs)       mkdirs  ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  conf)         conf    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  build)        build   ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  clean)        clean   ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  package)      pkg     ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  pkg)          pkg     ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  src-package)  spkg    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  spkg)         spkg    ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  finish)       finish  ; STATUS=$? ;;
-  all) (
-       prep && conf && build && pkg && spkg && finish ;
-       STATUS=$?
-       ) ;;
-  *) echo "Error: bad argument (all or one of these: prep mkdirs conf build clean package pkg src-package spkg finish)" ; exit 1 ;;
-esac
-exit ${STATUS}
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-patch.diff.in b/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-patch.diff.in
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-setup.hint.in b/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-setup.hint.in
deleted file mode 100644
index a2532fc68..000000000
--- a/Utilities/Release/Cygwin/cygwin-setup.hint.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# CMake setup.hint file for cygwin setup.exe program
-category: Devel
-requires: libgcc1 libidn11 @CMAKE_NCURSES_VERSION@ libstdc++6
-sdesc: "A cross platform build manager"
-ldesc: "CMake is a cross platform build manager. It allows you to specify build parameters for C and C++ programs in a cross platform manner. For cygwin Makefiles will be generated. CMake is also capable of generating microsoft project files, nmake, and borland makefiles. CMake can also perform system inspection operations like finding installed libraries and header files."
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/README b/Utilities/Release/README
index 12eafe18f..ed1d52e6a 100644
--- a/Utilities/Release/README
+++ b/Utilities/Release/README
@@ -15,7 +15,4 @@ Then as kitware@hythloth, using an up-to-date CMake:
 create-cmake-release.cmake:  script to run to create release sh scripts
 Add or remove machines in create-cmake-release.cmake.
 
-Cygwin -> directory that contains cpack cygwin package files used in
- CMakeCPack.cmake
-
 machine_release.cmake : config files for each machine
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/create-cmake-release.cmake b/Utilities/Release/create-cmake-release.cmake
index 192549ebc..7b144f11d 100644
--- a/Utilities/Release/create-cmake-release.cmake
+++ b/Utilities/Release/create-cmake-release.cmake
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ set(RELEASE_SCRIPTS_BATCH_1
 )
 
 set(RELEASE_SCRIPTS_BATCH_2
-  cygwin_release.cmake        # Cygwin x86
   win64_release.cmake         # Windows x64
 )
 
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/cygwin_release.cmake b/Utilities/Release/cygwin_release.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index ca3e794b9..000000000
--- a/Utilities/Release/cygwin_release.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-set(CMAKE_RELEASE_DIRECTORY "c:/cygwin/home/dashboard/CMakeReleaseCygwin")
-set(PROCESSORS 9)
-set(BOOTSTRAP_ARGS "")
-set(MAKE_PROGRAM "make")
-set(MAKE "${MAKE_PROGRAM} -j8")
-set(HOST dash2win64)
-set(CPACK_BINARY_GENERATORS "CygwinBinary")
-set(CPACK_SOURCE_GENERATORS "CygwinSource")
-set(MAKE_PROGRAM "make")
-set(INITIAL_CACHE "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
-CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_FULLPATH:FILEPATH=FALSE
-CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT:STRING=7200
-DART_TESTING_TIMEOUT:STRING=7200
-SPHINX_HTML:BOOL=ON
-SPHINX_MAN:BOOL=ON
-CMake_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES:BOOL=ON
-")
-set(CXX g++)
-set(CC  gcc)
-set(GIT_EXTRA "git config core.autocrlf false")
-get_filename_component(path "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}" PATH)
-
-# WARNING: Temporary fix!! This exclusion of the ExternalProject test
-# is temporary until we can set up a new cygwin build machine.
-# It only fails because of cygwin/non-cygwin "svn" mismatches in this
-# particular environment. This is less than ideal, but at least it
-# allows us to produce cygwin builds in the short term.
-set(EXTRA_CTEST_ARGS "-E ExternalProject")
-
-set(LOCAL_DIR cygwin)
-
-include(${path}/release_cmake.cmake)
diff --git a/Utilities/Release/release_cmake.cmake b/Utilities/Release/release_cmake.cmake
index 0d9c78458..0db89b558 100644
--- a/Utilities/Release/release_cmake.cmake
+++ b/Utilities/Release/release_cmake.cmake
@@ -108,10 +108,6 @@ foreach(gen ${generators})
   if("${gen}" STREQUAL "TBZ2")
     set(SUFFIXES ${SUFFIXES} "*.tar.bz2")
   endif()
-  if("${gen}" MATCHES "Cygwin")
-    set(SUFFIXES ${SUFFIXES} "*.tar.bz2")
-    set(extra_files setup.hint)
-  endif()
   if("${gen}" STREQUAL "TZ")
     set(SUFFIXES ${SUFFIXES} "*.tar.Z")
   endif()