a Linux-like environment for Windows. A way to run native linux apps on Windows and make way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality after a rebuild.
MSLU comes with licensing terms that are highly unfriendly to Open Source applications: although you can freely distribute unicows.dll with your application, your licensing terms must meet certain conditions that no Open Source license can.
component provides a layer over the Win32 API on Windows 95/98/ME so that you can write a single Unicode version of your application and have it run properly on all platforms. Platform Software Development Kit Redistributable
from Glowdot Code by Rick Strom " if you start with Win32, you will have very little problem moving to MFC or .NET, since they just simplify the process."
a suite of tools based on the Unix tool design principles allowing the processing of Windows application data with sophisticated data manipulation pipelines.