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An alternative set of ported programs is UnxUtils; these are usually older versions, but depend only on the Microsoft C-runtime msvcrt.dll. There is a package maintenance utility, GetGnuWin32, to download and install or update current versions of all GnuWin32 packages. [1]
pkg-config is software development tool that queries information about libraries from a local, file-based database for the purpose of building a codebase that depends on them. . It allows for sharing a codebase in a cross-platform way by using host-specific library information that is stored outside of yet referenced by the codeba
Under Microsoft Windows, the iconv library and the utility is provided by GNU's libiconv found in Cygwin [9] and GnuWin32 [10] environments; there is also a "purely Win32" implementation called "win-iconv" that uses Windows' built-in routines for conversion. [11] The iconv function is also available for many programming languages.
As with Cygwin, MSYS2 supports path translation for non-MSYS2 software launched from it. For example one can use the command notepad++ /c/Users/John/file.txt to launch an editor that will open the file with the Windows path C:\Users\John\file.txt. [9] [8] MSYS2 and its bash environment is used by Git and GNU Octave for their official Windows ...
Scoop is a command-line package manager for Microsoft Windows, used to download and install apps, as well as their dependencies. Scoop is often used for installing web development tools and other software development tools.
MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by PTC that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to Microsoft Windows. It was originally created for MS-DOS , and OS/2 versions were released up to version 4.4. [ 1 ]
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. [6] The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL. [7] The tee command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system. [8]
The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. [5] [6] Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages.