From the course: Parallel and Concurrent Programming with C++ Part 1

Installing Cygwin and Visual Studio Code - C++ Tutorial

From the course: Parallel and Concurrent Programming with C++ Part 1

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Installing Cygwin and Visual Studio Code

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- [Instructor] For the C++ demonstrations throughout this course, we'll be using GCC and the make utility to compile and link our example programs. Specifically, G++ version 7.4.0 and make 4.2.1. If you plan to use a different compiler, make sure it supports the C++ 17 standard to follow along. We'll be using Cygwin to emulate a Unix-like, POSIX-compliant environment on our Windows 10 computer. If you'll be using Cygwin as well to follow along, use the Cygwin setup utility to install the GCC-G++ and make packages and add the Cygwin bin directory to your Windows system path. Finally, to edit our source files, we'll be using Visual Studio Code, but feel free to use any code editor that you're already comfortable using. We've written each of the code examples as a single CPP source file, which can be found in the corresponding directory of the downloadable exercise files. For most of the videos, we'll provide you with a beginning state, the code at the beginning of the video, as well as an end state after we've made modifications. We've also included a make file with each of the examples, which you can use to compile and link the example code. Though keep in mind you may need to modify the contents of the make file if your development environment is configured differently.

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