should must be installed Cygwin? in win8 and 3.0alpha1.

hi all

I used the cocos2dx-3.0alpha1 version. I have not intasll Cygwin in my WIN8 system. i have installed python 2.7. when i created android-project , i used create_project.py. and it created succeed, and Compiled also succeed, run in android-phone also succeed. so i am very Confused… should must be installed Cygwin in win8 ? i am a newer… pls help me. thank you…

Cygwin is not necessary for any android NDK project. build_native.sh script is used for building Android project because it can run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. If you really don’t want Cygwin then you can directly build your project with by setting build command ndk-build.cmd in your eclipse project build settings and add NDK_MODULE_PATH in environment variables.

thanks for your help.~~;)