UNIX programming

[Nimrod Vax]

HI
 
I"m a student of computer science  in 
the University of Bar-Ilan in Israel. I need to write a  unix project 
but I have a hard time with the developing environment which is not very user 
friendly. is it possible for me to use the cygwin lib 
and by this be able to use the MSDEV environment as my development platform for 
a UNIX/LINUX application ? 
Where can I get information on how to do that 
?
 
Waiting for your reply,
 
Nimrod Vax