Install Cygwin, vi(vim), gcc

What is Cygwin?

  Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
 

You can work on your projects on your local computer without internet connection.



Installation Steps

1) Go to this website: http://cygwin.com/install.html

2) Click setup-x86.exe if you have 32-bit windows. For 64-bit windows users, click setup-x86_64 to download.

 

3) When you finish downloading, click 'setup-x86_64' file to set it up. (Mine is 64 bit)

4) Click next until you get this screen. (You are going to use default setting. If you need, you can change settings.)

5) Choose any sites that you want and click Next.

6) Follow the screen above.
    ** Mine says 'keep' instead of the number I said. This is because mine is already installed.

    Search for 'vim'
    vim:VI Improved - enhanced vi editor should be 7.3.1314-1
    vim-common: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor (common runtime) should be 7.3.1314-1

7) Click next

 8) Finish installation

9) Start installation again to set gcc

    Search for 'gcc'
    gcc-core: GNU Compiler Collection (C. OpenMP) should be 4.8.1-3
    gcc-g++: GNU Compiler Collection (Objective-C) should be 4.8.1-3
    libgcc1: GCC runtime library should be 4.8.1-3