How to configure Eclipse with CDT?-Collection of common programming errors

I’ve been trying to use CDT with Eclipse 3.4 under Windows XP with cygwin.

What do I need to do, in order to get startet? I used “eclipse-cpp-ganymede-SR1-win32.zip” found on the Eclipse homepage.

Edit:

The main problem is, that I cannot compile and run the code.

In the run configuration, I tried gcc.exe for the C/C++ Application:

After adding the path of make.exe to my $Path, and starting from scratch, it works perfectly.