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by jmatt 5120 days ago
Check out msys/mingw. It's a challenging setup, minimal and supports gcc. Key difference with cygwin: no attempt at posix compliance.

http://www.mingw.org/

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MinGW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ Console2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

MinGW comes with an installer that gives you GCC. Make sure you install MSYS as well (comes with bash, etc). Add the bin directories to your %PATH% when you're done. Then set Console to use bash as your default shell, and you have a pretty close setup to the command-line experience of Linux/Mac.

Indeed, that setup works pretty well.