Installing cygwin (with the devel packages)

1. Go to Cygwin.com and click on the install Cygwin now icon.
   
2. Follow the setup instructions until you come to the list of packages to be installed.
   By default cygwin does not install the c++ compiler so make sure you do the following steps below.
   
3. Go down the list of packages that cygwin shows you till you see "devel".
4. Next to the package name "devel", you should see an arrows icon and the word "Default"
   
5. Click on the arrows icon once and wait - the "Default" should change to "Install"
   
6. Then click on "Next" and wait for cygwin to finish installing
7. Follow the instructions below to change the Path environmental variable in Windows.

Installing Eclipse

1. Download Eclipse from the Eclipse website
2. Unzip eclipse into the directory of your choice.
3. Run Eclipse

Installing the Eclipse C/C++ Development toolkit

1. Install the CDT extension
   • Installing the C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) extension is not hard. You can look it up at the eclipse site (scroll down) and I have cut and pasted the instructions below:
   • To install CDT from the update site,
     1. in the Eclipse Help menu select Software Updates and then Find and Install,
        
     2. Select Search for new features to install and click Next.
     3. Select Callisto Discovery Site and click Finish.
     4. Choose Indiana University (twice),
     5. then when you see the search results screen and it asks for which features to install, click on the "+" sign next to "Callisto Discovery Site" and select "C and C++ Development", and click Next
     6. Accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next.
     7. You should see the "C and C++ Development" package read for installation. Click "Next" or "Finish" .
     8. You should notice that eclipse is still in Java mode.
        
     9. Select 'Window->Open Perspective->Other...' from the menu to bring up a list of available perspectives (modes).
        
     10. Select the 'C/C++' Perspective.
         
     11. You should notice that eclipse is now in C/C++ mode.
         
2. Change the Path variable to include C:\cygwin\bin (Thanks to Mike)
   • Start->control Panel.
   • Double Click on system
   • Click on the "Advanced" tab
   • Click on "Environmental Variables"
   • Go to the system variables scroll window and select PATH
   • Click on "Edit"
   • Add ;C:\cygwin\bin to the path variable (Note the ";" before the C: -- each entry in the path is seperated by a ";")

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