Cygwin for compiling

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@mkunikow

Try to use http://cmder.net/ the only one true console for windows

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Cmder - Awesome Windows console emulator!

Don’t need to wait for the Linux for Windows subsystem, we already have Cmder! 1.3.0 Pre-Release has been pretty stable for anyone looking to check it out. Does not fix tab auto completion on Windows 10 in the iex shell though…would be pretty awesome if someone could get the --werl shell working through Cmder. This issue mentions the tab auto complete problem on Windows 10. Alternatively…anyone have the Linux for Windows Subsystem installed? Does tab auto completion work within an iex sessi…

And this article
https://medium.com/@rpw952/elixir-development-on-windows-10-ff7ca03769d#.ei4bisiki

I had a good experience with cmder when I was working with nodeJS/AngularJS on Win7 - that being said it still didn’t stop me from moving to Arch (dual boot with Win10) for developing with OSS - so I never used it with Elixir.

However I would try it on a Win10 image that hasn’t been potentially compromised with the Cygwin situation.

As @NobbZ already stated cmder smoothes over some bumps but it isn’t *nix-on-win (which kept me pushing towards Arch) - but sometimes cmder is “good enough”.