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by kazinator 2681 days ago
Cygwin programs are (almost) native Windows programs. You can compile a POSIX-y program under Cygwin and it becomes a Windows program; you can ship it to a user if you just include a few DLL's that it needs.

I forked Cygwin's main DLL (cygwin1.dll) to create "Cygnal": an drop-in alternative that provides more Windows-like behaviors in various areas. Programs built under Cygwin can be bundled with Cygnal. Then (for instance) they have path handling that is familiar to Windows users.