Cygwin

Tutorial 1

What is Cygwin?

Cygwin offers a UNIX like environment on top of MS-Windows.

Gives the ability to use familiar UNIX tools without losing access to “typical” MS-Windows programs

Installing and Updating Cygwin Run setup.exe any time you want to update

or install a Cygwin package. Note that, when installing packages for the

first time, setup.exe does not install every package.

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.

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 1: Download and run the cygwin

installer.

Installing and Updating Cygwin Step 2: Select “Install from

Internet”:

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 3: Install to default location

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

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

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

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 7: In the “Select Packages” expand “Devel”:

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 8: Select the following packages: gcc : C compoiler upgrade helper. make: the GNU version of the make

utility. perl module build: perl module for

building perl modules.

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

Installing and Updating CygwinStep 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/ece2 2/cygwin.html

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~jng/comp1180/CygwinSetup.pdf