Installing/compiling in Cygwin/MinGW - How to set the include “path”? (symbolic link?)

Question

I have been trying to install/compile C libraries in Windows 7 using Cygwin and MinGW. However, I am getting errors like these during make:

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Answer 1

After much investigation, the problem turned out to be that:

1. MinGW does not have sys/times.h.
2. Cygwin has it, but my Cyqwin was using the gcc in my python directory, which is MinGW's gcc.

This was discovered while trying to resolve another problem here:

Cannot compile C code with #include in Cygwin

So it turns out that my problem had nothing to do with the include path or making symbolic links, but rather, the gcc version/type was wrong. This fact eluded me because I was running a clean installation of Cygwin and didn't know that it would automatically use the MinGW's gcc in my Python folder.