Originally Posted by
laserlight
I second CommonTater's assessment that "cygwin is a very non-standard environment". On the other hand, you managed to get the C compiler setup to compile C programs using Netbeans. Especially if you are comfortable with using Netbeans, I would say stick with the setup that you have now. Pelles C would have been good to avoid the hurdle of the setup, but now that you are past that, the C compiler available from Cygwin is reasonably standard compliant and suitable for learning C.