Der kostenlose API-Wrapper Cygwin ist in der Version 1.7.3-1 verfügbar. Mit Cygwin lässt sich unter Windows eine Unix/Linux-ähnliche Umgebung erzeugen, wobei die cygwin1.dll die grundlegenden APIs bereitstellt und sich somit angepaßte Unix/Linux-Programme unter Windows ausführen lassen, die mitgelieferten Tools erzeugen die passende Optik.
Cygwin 1.7.3-1 läuft unter Windows ab Windows 2000, für Windows 95, 98 und Me steht noch die ältere Version 1.5.25 zur Verfügung.
<b>Changelog:</b>
<ul><li>Changes and bugfixes since Cygwin 1.7.2:<blockquote><i>- Fix deadlock problem between atexit and dlclose processing which caused some programs to hang on exit.
- Fix handling of non-blocking pipes when read/write is attempted and previous I/O has not completed.
- Disable erroneous .exe/.lnk suffix handling for directories.
- Fix potentially corrupted locale information.
- Enable IPv6 support in rcmd(3) function, which was accidentally diabled since the function has been added to Cygwin 1.7.0.
- More relaxed Netapp FS recognition.
- Enable finding paths in backslash notation in calls to execvp/execlp.
- Modification and access timestamps of devices reflect the current time.
- Support for GB2312/EUC-CN. These charsets are implemented as aliases to GBK. GB2312 is now the default charset name for the locales zh_CN and zh_SG, just as on Linux.
- The Cygwin console emulation graphics mode switching now strictly follows ISO 2022.</i></blockquote></li>
<li><a href="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-04/msg00002.html" target="b">Release Notes / erweitertes Changelog</a></li></ul>
<b>Download:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/file/get.cgi?20100406080912">Cygwin 1.7.3-1 [Windows 2000+, Setup]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/file/get.cgi?20100325153309">Cygwin 1.5.25 [Windows 9x/Me, Setup]</a></li></ul>
<b>Links zum Thema:</b>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.cygwin.com" target="b">Offizielle Internetpräsenz</a></li></ul>