Web site: mingw.osdn.io Category: Others Platform: Windows, UNIX-like License: Public domain, GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: MinGW First release: July 1, 1998 MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) – a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows … Read more
Web site: gnuwin32.sourceforge.net Category: Others Platform: Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: GnuWin32 First release: 2005 GnuWin32 – provides ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license, to modern MS-Windows (Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7). The GnuWin project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, … Read more
Web site: mkssoftware.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: Proprietary Interface: CLI Wikipedia: MKS Toolkit First release: 1994 MKS Toolkit – allows you to run Unix scripts unmodified using its utilities and to migrate Unix source code unmodified to Windows using the 2700 standards-based POSIX, UNIX and X11 APIs in PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. … Read more
Web site: cygwin.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: LGPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Cygwin First release: October 18, 1995 Cygwin – a distribution of popular GNU and other Open Source tools running on Microsoft Windows. The core part is the Cygwin library which provides the POSIX system calls and environment these programs expect. The Cygwin distribution … Read more
Web site: docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl Category: Others Platform: Windows License: unknown (source code available) Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux First release: August 2, 2016 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables on MS Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019. The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment – … Read more