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Running gaming-up.sh and gaming-down.sh on Windows

EC2 Gaming (per lg.io): Running gaming-up.sh and gaming-down.sh on Windows

Install Cygwin, ensuring the following packages are included:
1. Developer package group, specifically:
  1. C compiler
  2. Make util
2. Curl (found in the "Net" package group)
3. Python (entire package group)
4. I found it's not necessary to install libusb if prompted by Cygwin during this process
Install jq in Cygwin
1. Download, being sure to find the tarball in section "From source on Linux, OS X, Cygwin, and other POSIX-like operating systems"
2. Build it using:
  1. $ cd "C:\Users\yourfilepathhere\"
    1. Note: Folder names may not contain spaces or $ make install will fail
  2. $ ./configure
  3. $ make
  4. $ make install
Install Java in Windows
1. Set variables in C:\cygwin64\home\yourpcname\.bashrc
  1. ```
  export JAVA_HOME=/cygdrive/c/yourjavainstallpathhere
  
  export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
```
2. Confirm installation in Cygwin with $ java -version
3. If you've set the environment variable correctly, the output looks something like this:
  1. java version "1.7.0_45" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode, sharing)

Install AWS Command Line Interface Tools in Cygwin

$ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
$ pip install awscli

Configure AWS CLI with keys, region, and json output
1. If necessary, use *$ ec2dre` to list regions
2. $ aws configure
  1. Notably, this would not work unless AWS CLI was installed in Cygwin (as opposed to in Windows)
3. When you reach the fourth option, output as "json"
Once steps 1-5 are complete, running gaming-up.sh and/or gaming-down.sh going forward should only require:
1. $ bash "C:\Users\yourfilepathhere\gaming-up/down.sh"