The Unix Alternative

Last week in my quest for something near a Linux / Unix environment I mentioned the UnxUtils and Cygnwin. Today I found out that AT&T RnD department has this cool Unix package that allows UNIX applications to be built and run on Win32 platforms.

UWIN has a set of libraries that emulate a UNIX environment using the UNIX API and includes the Korn Shell as well as other known GNU utilities (like ls, sed, tail, etc…).

I’m testing this package later on, and compare it to the other 2 solutions I have installed on my windows box.

[tags]Unix, Linux, UnxUtils, Cygnwin, UWIN, GNU[/tags]

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Caleb

January 15, 2006

Does this mean that you can (in an easier way) port Un*x programs? That would be interesting. Most Win32 C/C applications I’ve wrote are difficult to port, due to the lack of POSIX compliance in Windows.

Caleb

January 15, 2006

Does this mean that you can (in an easier way) port Un*x programs? That would be interesting. Most Win32 C/C applications I’ve wrote are difficult to port, due to the lack of POSIX compliance in Windows.

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