So, I was hangin' out at work today. And I decided I wanted to have a C/C++ environment up and running, because it looks like I have some C++ development ahead of me soon.
I downloaded and installed the Netbeans 6.8 C++ environment, in the desire to try something new. It expects either Cygwin or MinGW and is pretty well integrated with Cygwin. So I created my little test project, and tried to compile my main.cpp file, which compiled but on the linking stage, OH GOD THE PAIN.
Yes, friends, pain. See, I had not installed the liblstdc++.a file yet. Well, no problem, I will just run the setup.exe and grab them right? Sort of. Since the version is now 1.7 there is a very fun, evil popup that says
Download incomplete. Try again?
The solution is to hit "yes." This brings you back to the mirror server select screen but the key is, your already downloaded archive files are SAFE AND SOUND. There seems to be some sort of bug with the setup.exe file, but if you keep hitting yes and choosing the same exact mirror server, and then just hitting next on the feature select screen, all is well. The setup will only download the files it has not yet grabbed. As a further note, I had to purge my system of any previous Cygwin files and registry entries in order for the install to work.
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