Knowledge: win32

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• computers → software → operating systems → microsoft windows

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PW32 the POSIX-over-Win32 layer 
http://pw32.sourceforge.net/

Implementation and subset of POSIX/Unix API for Win32 systems. Focus: efficiency, full platform coverage, with good support for low-end Win9x systems. Based on DJGPP runtime library by DJ Delorie. [Open Source, LGPL]

Unix for WINdows 
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

U/WIN is software that lets Unix programs be recompiled and run on Win32 systems: Windows 95-98-Me/NT-2000-XP. Descriptions, documents, downloads.

DJGPP 
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

DOS port of the GNU C/C++ compiler and tools; 32 bit, highly optimizing, up-to-date, and free (GPLed).

Porting Unix to Windows NT 
http://www.usenix.org/publications//library/proceedings/ana97/korn.html

By David G. Korn;, 1997, USENIX paper (abstract, full text requires membership) describes AT&T UWIN project.

Hamilton C Shell 
http://www.hamiltonlabs.com/cshell.htm

Recreates original Unix C shell and utilities fully from scratch, adds many enhancements, for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, OS/2.

MKS Unix-Windows Co-Existence Products 
http://www.datafocus.com/

Toolkit suite of Unix and NT utilities for Windows, X Windows display environment, NutCracker development, interoperability, runtime environment.

Interix 
http://www.interix.com/

Provides cross-platform interoperability applications, development kits, solutions and tools.

Cygwin 
http://www.cygwin.com/

Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems (such as Linux, BSD, and Unix systems) to Windows. News, documentation and software downloads.

UnxUtils 
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities. Does not include compilers.

GnuWin32 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

The project provides Win32-versions, native ports, of GNU tools or tools with a similar open source licence. Does not include compilers. Docs, downloads and links to related sites.

MinGW: Minimalist GNU for Windows 
http://www.mingw.org/

Compiler system uses GCC to produce Windows programs. Win32 ports of GCC, GDB, binutils to build native Win32 programs that rely on no 3rd party DLLs. Website also contains MSYS, a Minimal SYStem, a shell, with which a configure script could be executed.

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