Microsoft has their own posix layer, it was called Windows Services for
Unix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX. It is VERY
old. It shipped versions of GCC that are horribly out of date which is
unfortunate because it could have been useful. Mingw/cygwin are much more
modern/better implementations of similar ideas.


On 14 February 2016 at 05:26, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12 Feb 2016, at 23:04, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > If this works would it suggest that we don't really need msys anymore?
>
> I’m not sure.  It looks as if MS is shipping their own POSIX layer
> (they’re using pthreads and similar in various places in their code).
>
> David
>
> -- Sent from my Apple II
>
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