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Cygwin User's Guide Much more than a simple emulator, Cygwin is a free Unix subsystem that runs on top of Windows. Cygwin uses a single dynamic link library ( cygwin1.dll ) to implement this subsystem, allowing the community to develop Cygwin-ized Unix tools that use the DLL to run on Windows ( for that, it is possible your system will ask you to put this dll in your system directory: C:\windows ). Cygwin is a set of powerful tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX/Linux to the Microsoft Windows platform. With Cygwin, administrators can login remotely to any PC, fix problems within a Posix/Linux/UNIX shell on any Windows machine, and run shell command scripts. Sophisticated shell command scripts can be created with standard shells, such as sed or awk, grep, strings, strace, md5sum, diff, patch. The Cygwin tool set includes compilers and interpreters for many programming languages. If you install gcc, gdb, make and the binutils, you now have a Windows C/C++ development environment.
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