Last modified: 2012.1. by Patrick Kelley

About Cygwin

Installing Cygwin

1. Go to http://www.cygwin.com and download "setup.exe" (under Install/Update Now!).
2. Run setup.exe.
   • You can leave most of the settings at their defaults.
   • Under "Choose a Download Site" you can pick any one; I often use "http://mirrors.kernel.org".
   • On the "Select Packages" step, click the "View" button to select "Full" instead of "Category" and select "gcc-core" and "gcc-g++" to be downloaded (clicking on the adjacent word "Skip" will select it).
   • Click "Next" to install Cygwin.

3. Once Cygwin is installed, double-click its icon on the desktop to open a Cygwin terminal. Here you can type commands along the lines of the following:

         pwd
         cd c:/somefolder/otherfolder
         ls
         cd ..
         cp existingfilename newduplicatefilename
         mv oldfilename newfilename
         mv filename foldername
         g++ -o prog.exe prog.cpp
         ./prog
         exit
   

   Since Cygwin can access Windows folders as normal, you can use your favorite text editor to type in your C++ source code.

See Also

• Unix Command Reference.
• Vim Command Reference.