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<\/a>So, at first I thought it would be really easy to download a program and install it\u2026 I\u2019ve done that a couple of times but I turned out this time I was totally lost. Why? Let me tell you\u2026<\/p>\n
I opened Cygwin.com, where we were supposed to download the program, and start reading the instructions. Nothing to worry about until here but then I thought \u201cI should read the FAQ\u2019s just to know what could go wrong\u201d.\u00a0 That was my biggest mistake. I clicked the FAQ\u2019s link and around 103 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS appeared in front of me!!! 103!!! Most of them were question like \u201cWhere is glibe?\u201d or \u201dWhy is my .rhost file not recognized by rlogin anymore after updating to Cygwin 1.7.34?\u201d I freaked out because half of the English words I was reading seemed to be part of a computerscientist slang completely unknown to me.<\/p>\n
I read a few questions and it turns out you can kill your computer in several ways when you install Cygwin. I did some research on google but it really didn\u00b4t help me, the same computerscientist language kept appearing on every link I clicked.<\/p>\n
Finally I decided I had to stop thinking in what could go wrong and YOLO\u2026 (Also the worst thing it could happen was that I had to delete around 17 gigas of Cygwin crap) I looked for a video on youtube.com (second mistake) and followed the instructions. The program was surprisingly slow to download since in the video the process looked pretty fast (although I was connected to a lame Wifi in that moment). I was worried of downloading 17 gigas of stuff I didn\u2019t need.<\/p>\n To make this story shorter; Cygwin seemed to be installed but I spend the next week trying to figure out why it didn\u2019t work properly. I tried to compile the \u201cHello World\u201d thing and every time Cygwin would return an error: stddef.h not founded. The problem was that I have followed the youtube tutorial and installed some packages (now I know what a package is) which in some way blocked the C++ libraries (now I also know what a library is).<\/p>\n Now here is the good part: I had to figure out myself how to fix my Cygwin and I learned, maybe it sounds easy or not a big deal but believe me, when I compiled and ran my first code after one week of frustration it WAS A BIG DEAL!<\/p>\n Here is the video I watched but I totally don\u00b4t<\/u> recommend it.<\/p>\n<\/a>