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by hnlmorg 277 days ago
A lot of software from the Linux/UNIX world will have macros to support Windows even without cygwin.

For example with tcpdump:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Athe-tcpdump-group%2Ftcpdu...

So it’s not quite the same thing as what we were discussing further up the thread. Though it’s still an interesting anecdote in its own right.