Development Environment Setup

When starting at a new client I often have to setup my development environment from scratch.

Environment Variables

I install everything to c:\tools and set environment variables accordingly.

  • JAVA_HOME
  • MAVEN_HOME
  • PATH

Cygwin

One of the first things I do is install 64-bit cygwin. Included in cygwin, I select the latest versions of the following packages: - bash-completion

  • curl
  • git
  • ncurses
  • openssh
  • openssl
  • mintty
  • subversion
  • vim
  • wget
  • inetutils
  • jq

Cygwin config

When installing cygwin it does not create a /etc/passwd file, so you have to do so yourself.

mkpasswd -c -p "$(cygpath -H)" > /etc/passwd

Finally, go into this file and change the home directory from HOME to the directory you want from /home/ to /cygdrive/c/users/# mintty

My preferred terminal emulator in cygwin is mintty. I create a mintty.bat file with the following content:

start c:\tools\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -e c:\tools\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -login -i

Bash Profile

And of course, no development environment would be complete without a customized .bash_profile, here is my bare-bones version:

# General
PS1="\[\e[01;37m\][\t]-[\[\e[01;37m\u\e[01;37m\]]-[\[\e[01;37m\]${HOSTNAME%%.*}\[\e[01;37m\]]:\w\[\e[01;37m\]\n$ \[\e[0m\]"
function xtitle {
echo -ne "\033]0;$1\007"
}

# Maven
export MAVEN_OPTS_BASE='-server -Xms66M -Xmx1024M -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder'
export MAVEN_OPTS_DEBUG=' -Xdebug=true -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9997'
alias mvnDebugOff='export MAVEN_OPTS=$MAVEN_OPTS_BASE'
alias mvnDebugOn='export MAVEN_OPTS=$MAVEN_OPTS_BASE$MAVEN_OPTS_DEBUG'
alias mcdu='mvn versions:display-dependency-updates -U'
alias mcpu='mvn versions:display-plugin-updates -U'
alias mci='mvn clean install -U'
alias mcp='mvn clean package -U'
alias mct='mvn clean test -o'
alias itest='mvn -DforkCount=0 clean verify -o'
alias mcjr='mvn clean jetty:run -o'

# Local Directories
alias cdp="xtitle 'code'; cd /cygdrive/c/code/"

# Start Script...
mvnDebugOn
cdp
Written on February 21, 2015