ezwinports Alternatives

ezwinports is described as 'Collection of ports to MS-Windows of GNU and Unix software packages, which either don't have precompiled Windows binaries available, or whose existing ports are buggy or broken. All the ports are built using the MinGW development environment, with or without MSYS' and is an app. There are 2 alternatives to ezwinports for Windows. The best ezwinports alternative is gow, which is both free and Open Source.

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    Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • gow is the most popular Windows alternative to ezwinports.

    • gow is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ezwinports.

    • gow is Free and Open Sourceezwinports is also Free and Open Source
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    Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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