lmemsm | Windows and MinGW C/C++ resources

This post includes a list of resources for building applications and libraries for Windows using MinGW or similar projects.

Just wanted to note some of the native Windows porting projects I've worked on before I list some of the other projects out there. I've compiled the X server code and built a X server on Windows (similar to the Xming X server but with all my own patches). I'm looking into porting msh to Windows and other platforms (including patches for better handling of internationalization/UTF-8 character codes). I'm working on porting various core utilities based on Minix, BSD and custom implementations. I have patches and build scripts for several Open Source libraries and programs. See http://www.distasis.com/cpp/lmbld.htm for further details and a link to some of the scripts and patches. I work with regex and fnmatch libraries based on MIT licensed code from musl. musl uses regex code from the BSD licensed tre library. I also work with a BSD gettext implementation based on code put together for PostgreSQL. The libiconv and iconv implementations I use are written from scratch using custom UTF-8/internationalization code. I also have my own custom implementations of libmman, libdl and pthreads as well as other libraries I use to help with porting applications.

Places to download builds of various Open Source software and libraries for Windows and MinGW:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
Many of the GNU libraries and programs patched and recompiled for MinGW.

http://devpaks.org/
Devpaks repository Libraries for the Dev-C++ compiler which uses MinGW. Could also be used without Dev-C++. Files should be standard tar.bz2 files renamed with .devpak extension.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/
OpenSuse Windows Packages has windows packages cross-compiled using MinGW on OpenSuse and the OpenSuse Build System (OBS).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/
ezwinports has ports of Unix and GNU software to MS-Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep/
MinGW packages repository

https://sourceforge.net/projects/takeoffgw/
TakeoffGW - Cygwin style package manager and native Windows packages built with the OpenSUSE Build Service.

Patches and build scripts to build Open Source software for Windows:

https://github.com/Alexpux/mingw-builds
https://github.com/mxe/mxe

MSYS and Cygwin alternatives:

http://midipix.org/
Alternative to MinGW and Cygwin and build scripts for various Open Source tools:

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
GNU on Windows - lightweight alternative to Cygwin. Native Win32 programs.

Busybox port for Windows:
https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32
Lightweight versions of core utilities.

Busybox-w32 fork:
https://frippery.org/busybox/

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
UnxUtils - Native Win32 ports of core utilities.

https://github.com/rubenvb/UnixToolsForWindows
Unix Tools for Windows - Native Windows implementations emulating core utilities written in C++.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win-bash/
Native Win32 port of an older version of bash.

https://steve.fi/Software/bash/
GNU Bash for Windows

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh-nt/?source=directory
WinZsh - Z shell for Windows

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
Xming X Server - Windows native X server

Open Source libraries patched for Windows:

http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/libintl.html
Relocatable libintl for MinGW.

https://github.com/dlfcn-win32/dlfcn-win32
POSIX dynamic runtime library loading (libdl) compatibility routines.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/mman-win32/
POSIX mmap functionality.

http://synesis.com.au/software/unixem.html
Various POSIX functions implemented for Windows.

https://github.com/rprichard/winpty
Winpty - provides and interface similar to a Unix pty-master for communicating with Windows console programs.

Pthreads and C/C++ 11 threads compatibility patches and implementations:

https://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
pthreads-win32 - Red Hat's POSIX thread library for Win32.

http://jmhartsoftware.com/Pthreads_Emulation.html
Simplified Pthread Emulation with Macros - Minimal pthread emulation.

https://tinycthread.github.io/
TinyCThread - C11 threads implementation

https://github.com/jtsiomb/c11threads
c11threads - GNU compatibility headers for C11 thread support