Tools and utilities to emulate Linux in Windows

Make sure to follow the Microsoft security advisory concerning DLL hijacking. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspxAllow to link against -lbinmode instead of /lib/binmode.o. Same for -ltextmode, -ltextreadmode and -lautomode.BSD macros in endian.h (htobe16, le32toh, etc)

Changes

• Make sure to follow the Microsoft security advisory concerning DLL hijacking. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspxAllow to link against -lbinmode instead of /lib/binmode.o. Same for -ltextmode, -ltextreadmode and -lautomode.BSD macros in endian.h (htobe16, le32toh, etc)

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non “release candidate”, ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE. It consists of two parts:

• DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer
• A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel