The Cygwin program allows you to run Linux-based binary files on your Windows computer. Through this, you can access a Linux file system, Linux applications and Linux security software related to your ...
If you use the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the computers at your business and need to run Linux or BSD programs on them, you can use Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows computers.
If you have access to a Windows machine, it might be simpler to install mingw on it and compile on it directly. (And mingw's gcc won't generate binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll.) ...