Cygwin


Introduction

In the official site's own words, "The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API.". This set of tools includes a C/C++ compiler. It used to be known just as Cygnus. But then Cygnus became a company and now has been absorbed by Red Hat. So it took me a bit to actually find this ol' dog because cygnus.com simply goes to redhat.com.

By the way, it's free.

Obtainment

You can download it for free. See the official homepage for more information.

Installation

Haven't bothered trying this out yet ... will do in a while.

Build Program: From Single File

Since it's a port of GNU development tools, see GNU C/C++ for how to do this.

Links

Cygnus GNU C/C++ Compiler Installation Help for Win32

Cygwin Official Homepage