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how to connect a cloud google server via cygwin for windows users?

Well, that's should be easy, according to the document on: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/gcutil/

BUT it's not that simple...

Solution

    1. install Cygwin (32 bit!) + the relevant libraries (packages): SSH, curl, python, g++, make, vim, etc'... as explained in this video tutorial (on minute 5)

    2. install Python ( set ENV variable: CLOUDSDK_PYTHON to ...)

    3. start cygwin and check if Python works: type python - you should see the version and the command line should change from $ to >>> (exit by ctrl+Z)

    4. run curl command:

      $ curl https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/release/install_google_cloud_sdk.bash | bash

      • this didn't work for me. so I had to download & extract manually:

    a.Download google-cloud-sdk.zip

    b.Unzip the file by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract all.

    c.copy the extracted library to: C:\cygwin\home\

    d.on the cygwin console type:

    cd google-cloud-sdk

    and then run the install.sh:

    ./install.sh

    after done that, you can finally write the gcutil command given from google (on the VM instances table, under the "SSH" button)