problem in installing dealii-8.4.1 through cygwin

[Sellam Muruganantham]

hi..

I'm a new user of dealii and i'm trying to install it in my Windows 10 64bit machine through cygwin. but it gives me an error while executing the step:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/dir ../deal.II  

it gives an error saying:

     process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, /usr/bin/c++.exe -o

  CMakeFiles/cmTC_534af.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o -c

  /cygdrive/c/New/dealii-master/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/testCXXCompiler.cxx,

  ...) failed.

  make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.

  gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTC_534af.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o] Error 2

  gmake: *** [cmTC_534af/fast] Error 2

  CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.

Call Stack (most recent call first):  CMakeLists.txt:90 (PROJECT)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

i have attached the log file. 

[Bruno Turcksin]

Hi,

On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 3:28:38 AM UTC-4, Sellam Muruganantham wrote:

I'm a new user of dealii and i'm trying to install it in my Windows 10 64bit machine through cygwin. but it gives me an error while executing the step:

This will not work. We don't support cygwin. Either use linux (dual boot or virtual machine) or use a recent version of visual studio https://github.com/dealii/dealii/wiki/Windows

Best,

Bruno