PW32 the Posix-over-Win32 layer

PW32 is an implementation of the (subset of) POSIX/Unix API for Win32 systems. Its main concerns are efficiency and full platform coverage, including adequate support for low-end Win9x systems. PW32 is based on DJGPP's runtime library by DJ Delorie. PW32 is licensed under LGPL.

Also, PW32 is a collection of software ported with PW32 library. The aim is to have comprehensive GNU/Win32 distribution, easily installable, and correctly and efficiently working.

Available documentation:

• Original announcement (wasn't used in the supposed way)
  
• Philosophy and implementation (main document, please read before using PW32; includes 'not implemented' listing)
  
• Supported and controlling environment variables
  
• Debugging PW32 applications
  
• POSIX/libc/GNU utilities documentation
• Packages and packaging
• Screenshots %)

Installation/Building:

• Installing the PW32
  
• Bootstrapping the PW32 environment
  

Porting software with PW32

• Porting GNU/*nix software to PW32
• Regression tests results for ported software
• Status of \r\n (DOS) textfiles support by precompiled packages

Project infrastructure/files:

• Project page at SourceForge (all downloads available from here)
  
• Special page for downloads (please get latest versions!)
  
• Mailing lists / support
• Browse CVS
  
• Daily snapshot of entire CVS repository
  
• Submit/lookup bugs, misfeatures and TODOs
  
• Lookup task to do/in progress
  
• Submit/lookup patches
  
• Participate in survey, if any
  
• Original GNU source packages
  

Links

• Native tools useful with PW32
• Related projects/sites