a suite of tools based on the Unix tool design principles allowing the processing of Windows application data with sophisticated data manipulation pipelines.
from Glowdot Code by Rick Strom " if you start with Win32, you will have very little problem moving to MFC or .NET, since they just simplify the process."
MSLU comes with licensing terms that are highly unfriendly to Open Source applications: although you can freely distribute unicows.dll with your application, your licensing terms must meet certain conditions that no Open Source license can.
component provides a layer over the Win32 API on Windows 95/98/ME so that you can write a single Unicode version of your application and have it run properly on all platforms. Platform Software Development Kit Redistributable
a Linux-like environment for Windows. A way to run native linux apps on Windows and make way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality after a rebuild.
Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT / XP
The UWIN package allows UNIX applications to be built and run on Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 with few, if any, changes necessary. UWIN source and binaries are available under the open source Common Public License 1.0.
automatically hardens software applications against a wide range of bugs. These bugs — known as memory errors — often end up as serious security vulnerabilities, cause crashes, or lead to unpredictable behavior.
port of the X Window System server to Windows. It shares the same source code base as Cygwin/X, but does not depend on the Cygwin environment or cygwin1.dll. Xming is a fully featured X11 server for Windows that is very simple to install and use.