[rogerlsmith]

If you go to the Wind River site you can download a trial version here.
This is a special version of Eclipse with all the necessary goodies. I don't think you'll need MinGW. I installed this version and it was completely painless. I'm very excited about getting started with Wind River.

To be fair, I also downloaded LabVIEW. I'm not sure if I like the idea of programming this way, I'm a little "old-school" you might say. Never-the-less I hope to get a good understanding of it before we get too involved this year. I plan to give our team the opportunity to try both environments.