Does anyone know of a project that could help solve the problem? I guess, I am primarily looking for a non-intrusive cmd.exe replacement for Windows 2000 Pro.
Are you trying to avoid installing Cygwin for your build environment, or avoid Cygwin in your runtime environment ? If the latter, then there is a workable option for you that we use in a project here: http://cccl.sourceforge.net/ This allows you to build with the autoconf tools, but use the MS compiler, and hence avoid a runtime dependency on Cygwin.
