Cygnal: fork of Cygwin DLL for native Windows apps

What it does

The situation: Cygwin provides an excellent, modern ISO C and POSIX library on Windows and a rich development environment. Now that Cygwin is under the GNU LGPL license, applications with various licenses, free as well as proprietary, can be shipped with the Cygwin run-time libraries without obtaining a commercial license from Red Hat Inc. Cygwin can be used for developing and deploying self-contained applications for Windows, since it's possible to ship a Cygwin executable by bundling it with the Cygwin library cygwin1.dll plus the GCC run-time library cyggcc_s-1.dll . The problem: Unfortunately, some behaviors of the functions in Cygwin DLL depend on and are geared toward the POSIX-like…from kylheku.com

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