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OT: C++ compiler needed for Vista

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Friday, 25 February 2011, at 4:11 a.m.

In Response To: OT: C++ compiler needed for Vista (Chuck Bower)

Cygwin is basically a unix stack of programs running natively inside of windows. There is no overhead of virtualization involved. Cygwin actually creates a reasonable environment to do a wide variety of work in. Among other things Cygwin has an X server/client in it, which means you can create X windows Apps that run natively inside of windows as well, a full bash shell, even an ssh server and client. All apps created by the compilers in cygwin generate executables that are runnable directly under windows. Generally they have a dependency on a special DLL (cygwin.dll).

Cygwin is about the closest you can get to having a Unix environment running natively inside of Windows that I have seen.

Applications/Libraries generally written to be compiled for Unix can be built inside of Cygwin with relatively little modification.

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