a small and simple library that provides emulation of several popular Unix API functions on the Win32 platform. Its primary purpose is to assist Win32 programmers who are porting to Unix or are writing multi-platform code. API functions include opendir/readdir/closedir, glob/globfree, readv/writev, pathconf/realpath, mmap/munmap/msync, dlopen/dlclose/dlsym/dlerror, gettimeofday, and getpagesize.