Directory of Win32 Resources

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Ports of Unix utilities to the common Microsoft Windows operating system (OS). Many are very powerful.

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• Gow

  https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
  A lightweight alternative to Cygwin.

• 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.

• 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.

• MKS Unix-Windows Co-Existence Products

  http://www.mkssoftware.com/
  Toolkit suite of Unix and NT utilities for Windows, X Windows display environment, NutCracker development, interoperability, runtime environment.

• 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.

• 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

  https://github.com/att/uwin
  U/WIN is software that lets Unix programs be recompiled and run on Win32 systems.

• UnxUtils

  http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
  Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities. Does not include compilers.

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