Cygwin Tutorial 1 What is Cygwin Cygwin offers

Cygwin Tutorial 1

What is Cygwin? Cygwin offers a UNIX like environment on top of MS-Windows. n Gives the ability to use familiar UNIX tools without losing access to “typical” MSWindows programs n

Installing and Updating Cygwin Run setup. exe any time you want to update or install a Cygwin package. n Note that, when installing packages for the first time, setup. exe does not install every package. n Clicking on categories and packages in the setup. exe package installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated. n

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 1: Download and run the Cygwin installer.

Installing and Updating Cygwin n Step 2: Select “Install from Internet”:

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 3: Install to default location If your OS is Vista, chose this option

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 4: Use default local package directory (click next)

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 5: Use whatever internet connection settings (click next)

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 6: Select a mirror (click next) To save your download time, please choose the one nearest to you! Check : http: //cygwin. com/mirrors. html Try: Japan: ftp. iij. ad. jp(ftp), ftp. jaist. ac. jp(ftp), ring. aist. go. jp(ftp), ftp. iij. ad. jp(http), ftp. jaist. ac. jp(http)

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 6: Select a mirror (click next)

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 7: In the “Select Packages” expand “Devel”: Keep: if the package has already been installed Skip: if first time

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 8: Select the following packages: n gcc : C compiler upgrade helper. n make: the GNU version of the make utility. n Perl-Ext. Utils-Depends : perl module for building perl modules. n Perl-Ext. Utils-Pkg. Config Expand “System” select : n Proc. Ps

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 9: In the “Select Packages” expand “Editors”:

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 10: Select the following package: nano: a pico clone text editor with etensions. Step 11: Click Next to complete the installation.

Resources www. cygwin. com http: //www. eecg. utoronto. ca/~aamodt/ece 2 2/cygwin. html http: //www. comp. hkbu. edu. hk/~jng/comp 1180/Cygwin. Setup. pdf