Lpc2000

software:
cygwin (on XP)
Gnude
Microcontroller:
LPC2131 (new micros devboard)

I am starting out with microcontrollers and am trying to get a simple 
helloworld like program to compile with gcc but am having trouble. 
I installed cygwin (the default install) and gnude so that gnude is a 
sub directory ( C:\cygwin\gnude )
  but everytime i try to compile a program it gives me an error 
message like
bash: gcc not recongized command or something like that.

I  have used gcc at my university but have never really tried to 
setup a linux/unix like environment before.

Do i need to set certain Paths?  do i need to place my files in a 
certain directory and compile from a certain directory?  
I know this is a LPC2000 group but this is related to getting started 
with an ARM.  Should I post this in a unix/linux group?

THank you
Neal