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1. • POSIX emulation layer for Windows

     • Cygwin (pronounced ‘sig-win or sig-‘win) is a POSIX emulation layer for Windows. It allows most Unix scripts to run and applications to build from source out of the box, with very little porting effort.
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     23.14 Bringing POSIX Emulation to Windows with Cygwin

2. cygwin.com › faqCygwin FAQ

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   The network support in Cygwin is supposed to provide the POSIX API, not the Winsock API. There are differences between the semantics of functions with the same name under the API. E.g., the POSIX select system call can wait on a standard file handles and handles to sockets. The select call in Winsock can only wait on sockets.

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   • Cygwin User's Guide

     The Cygwin User's Guide is now available in several formats:...

   • Cygserver

     XSI IPC Message Queues. XSI IPC Semaphores. XSI IPC Shared...

   • Internationalization

     Internationalization support is controlled by the LANG and...

   • Setting Up Cygwin

     The Local Package Directory is the cache where setup stores...

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   • Highlights of Cygwin Functionality

     Cygwin supports both POSIX- and Win32-style paths, using...

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 771756What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

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   Apr 21, 2009 · Cygwin provides a largely POSIX-compliant development and run-time environment for Microsoft Windows. Thus: To use advantage of GCC cross platform compiler in Windows, use MinGW.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CygwinCygwin - Wikipedia

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   Cygwin supports POSIX symbolic links, representing them as plain-text files with the system attribute set. Cygwin 1.5 represented them as Windows Explorer shortcuts , but this was changed for reasons of performance and POSIX correctness.

6. cygwin.comCygwin

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   What... ...is it? Cygwin is: a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality. ...isn't it? Cygwin is not: a way to run native Linux apps on Windows.

7. cygwin.com › cygwin-ug-net › highlightsHighlights of Cygwin Functionality

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   Cygwin supports both POSIX- and Win32-style paths, using either forward or back slashes as the directory delimiter. Paths coming into the DLL are translated from POSIX to native NT as needed. From the application perspective, the file system is a POSIX-compliant one.

8. superuser.com › questions › 1360748What is the difference between Windows Subsystem for Linux ...

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   Sep 24, 2018 · Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer that runs on top of the Win32 subsystem. It has approximately nothing to do with Linux; it can broadly be treated as "just another Unix-like" where porting programs requires recompilation and possibly source modification, and anything that requires non-POSIX Linux-specific features probably won't work.

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   Is Cygwin POSIX compliant?

   • Cygwin provides a largely POSIX-compliant development and run-time environment for Microsoft Windows. Thus: To use advantage of GCC cross platform compiler in Windows, use MinGW. To use advantage of POSIX standard advanced programming features and tools in Windows, use Cygwin.

   What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

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   Does Cygwin have a POSIX layer?

   • Windows does not offer a standard POSIX library so cygwin provides one (cygwin1.dll). The gcc packages that comes with cygwin uses it. mingw, on the other hand, does not necessarely provide a POSIX layer. The mingw installation that I use, for example, does not even have a pthread library. Should I need it I would have to install it.

   Why does GCC-Windows depend on cygwin? - Stack Overflow

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   Is Cygwin a native Win32 application?

   • Cygwin applications by principle are not considered a "Native Win32 application" because it relies on the Cygwin® POSIX Emulation DLL or cygwin1.dll for Posix functions and does not use win32 functions directly. MinGW on the other hand, provides functions supplied by the Win32 API.

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   Can Cygwin create a POSIX symlink as a Windows shortcut?

   • Cygwin is also capable to create POSIX symlinks as Windows shortcuts (see the CYGWIN environment variable option "winsymlinks"), but these shortcuts are different from shortcuts created by native Windows applications. Windows applications can usually make use of Cygwin shortcuts but not vice versa. This is by choice.

   Cygwin FAQ

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   Does Cygwin work with Microsoft console?

   • Cygwin even contains VT100 emulation and termios, which work with the Microsoft console! A POSIX application that sets up raw mode with tcsetattr and uses VT100 codes to control the cursor will work right in the cmd.exe window. As far as the end-user is concerned, it's a native console app making Win32 calls to control the console. However:

   What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

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   What is Cygwin in Linux?

   • Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. From Mingw's website:

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10. www.sobyte.net › post › 2021-11Cygwin/MinGW/MSys/WSL differences and links - SoByte

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    Nov 11, 2021 · Cygwin is a POSIX “subsystem” running on the Windows platform, providing a Unix-like environment for Windows and a development environment for “porting” some Linux applications to the Windows platform. One of the official definitions of cygwin is that Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows.