Re: Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications

I realize this thread was a while ago, but I'll add some more

information.

There is a site that is dedicated to Subsystem for Unix-based

Applications (SUA) and SFU. It's sponsored by Microsoft even:

www.suacommunity.com

1)

The SUA utilities come with gcc/gdb and the ability to use MSVS/MSVC as

well (using cc/c89) from the command line environment to build

Unix/Linux programs. It's rare to use Visual Studio's IDE but a few

people do. You can debug these programs using the Visual Studio debugger

or (I think better) WinDbg.

2)

There's a FAQ at the SUA Community site on this, but in brief in SFU

contained several "components" including one named Interix which is the

Unix subsystem. Most of the SFU components were merged into the Windows

OS distribution with W2K3/R2 including Interix which got labeled as

Subsystem for Unix-based Applications (SUA). So SUA is a more recent

version of the same thing with bug fixes, some additions, etc.

3)

To run SUA specifically you need to have W2K3/R2 or later version of

the Windows OS. If you have W2K3 then you can use SFU to do most of the

same things except using the MSVS debugger or WinDbg -- that's one of

the enhancements starting at W2K3/R2.

Branching off to some other points.

OpenSSH, ghostscript, bash and other apps are available pre-built from

the SUA community site.

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