Cygwin installation on windows Operating system with NetBeans IDE integration

Description

• Cygwin is a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.

• A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality.

• The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, starting with Windows XP SP3.

• This we are using this compiler we can Get that Linux feeling - on Windows.

• For documented resource click her.

Installation instructions

• For installation of Cygwin we need following software...

1. Gygwin Setup-x86.Exe (Gygwin Setup-86_64.Exe)
2. Jave Runtime Engine
3. NetBeans IDE

•  In order to install software first we need to install Cygwin 

• Run setup.Exe and click on Next

• Chose Download source install from local Directory 

• Click here to Download resource file and place on Desktop of your system.

• Chose install directory to default location i.e. C:\cygwin click on Next.

• Click Browse button from local package directory dialog box.

• Select local package directory to cygwin directory witch is placed on desktop. 

• Click on Next Button.

• In the select packages window, go down the list and expand ‘Devel’ 

• You need to install the following packages by clicking on the circle with the arrows (it should turn from ‘skip’ to a version number):  
• gcc-core: C compiler
• gcc-g++: C++ compiler
• gdb: The GNU debugger
• make: The GNU version of the ‘make’ utility

• Click next and wait until all packages are installed.  Click finish when this is done.

• We need to add the cygwin compiler directory to your path to enable NetBeans IDE to find the tools collection.

• Open the Control Panel and double click on 
  system.

• Click on Advanced system settings.

• Select the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables.

• In the System Variables panel of the Environment Variables dialog, select the Path variable and click Edit.

• Add the path to the cygwin-directory\bin directory to the Path variable, and click OK.

• By default, cygwin-directory is C:\cygwin. Directory names must be separated with a semicolon. Your edited path should look something like %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\cygwin\bin 
• Click OK in the Environment Variables dialog and the System properties dialog.

• You will need the Java Run time Engine (JRE) installed as well but this is usually already installed on Windows machines. 

• Run the NetBeans installer using all the default settings.