The usual source for native Unix utilities is: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

You may be able to massage rman/polyglotman into working for you. That said, you'd have to track down the man pages themselves then. You may have to bit the bullet and install cygwin. Just pay close attention to the way your paths are set up so you know when e.g. you're running the cygwin gcc vs. the mingw.

Yay cygwin 😀

I've always wondered what the difference (and pros/cons) between MinGW and Cygwin are, as I'm unfamiliar with both. My PC at work came with Cygwin on it, but I do all of my development via an X-Windows session to a Solaris box so I never use Cygwin.

I could not live without Cygwin 😀

The main difference between Cygwin and MinGW is that Cygwin compiled/linked programs requires the cygwin1.dll to be installed on the target machine. MinGW generates "pure" Windows code.

GCC under Cygwin has been tweaked to accept an extra switch, -nocygwin (or something like that), that *should* make the GCC system produce "pure" Windows code. For the few tests I have done, it seems to do the trick.

Eww, extra baggage. With -nocygwin, how do these "pure" binaries compare in size to those produced with MinGW?

Heh, I hijacked my own thread. Oh well.

HunterZ wrote:

I've always wondered what the difference (and pros/cons) between MinGW and Cygwin are, as I'm unfamiliar with both.

Well, I don't know if you know this but cygwin implements unix apis so that you can compile and run unix programs in windows. AFAIK Mingw is just a port of gcc and some unix utils to windows that can compile windows programs but not unix ones.
I hope that's clear 😀

Ah, I see. Sounds like MinGW would be better for compiling things like DOSBox and SDL then...