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Windows users need to set up a Unix-like enviroment such as [[MinGW]] or [[Cygwin]]. It may well be worth looking into systems such as Linux and see if they fit your needs, as you commonly use a lot of Unix-like tools in operating systems development and this is much easier from a Unix-like operating system. '''If you have just installed the basic [[Cygwin]] package, you have to run the setup.exe again and install the following packages:''' GCC, G++, Make, Flex, Bison, Diffutils, libintl-devel, libgmp-devel, libmpfr-devel, libmpc-devel, texinfoTexinfo

The "Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta)", released with the Windows 10 Anniversary update is also an option for using a cross compiler. (Tested 08/08/2016 with GCC 6.1.0 and binutilsBinutils 2.27) This cross-compiler works reasonably fast, although being in beta state, it may not be ideal permanent development platform.

'''Cygwin note:''' Cygwin includes your Windows <tt>%PATH%</tt> in its bash <tt>$PATH.</tt> If you were using DJGPP before, this could result in confusion as e.g. calling <tt>gccGCC</tt> on the Cygwin bash command line would still call the DJGPP compiler. After uninstalling DJGPP, you should delete the DJGPP environment variable and clear the <tt>C:\djgpp</tt> entry (or wherever you installed it) from your <tt>%PATH%</tt>. Likewise, it might be a bad idea to mix build environments in your system PATH variable.