HI,

I've built in the past windows versions using the cygwin tools, and they work great. However, the licensing on the tools appears to me to be oppressive. That is, you can create programs for personal use, but to distribute the executables to others requires a license, and you have to negotiate the license, and the fee doesn't seem reasonable to me (several US$1000s). So, has anyone looked at Microsoft's version of "Unix tools" for windows? The URL is http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp

If so, would appreciate finding out the following: 1) how good are they (as good/complete as cygwin) 2) cost to get the software (it looks like either a) free, b) US$100, but could not determine) 3) is there a license fee for distributing the executables? 4) can you link static? (I couldn't figure out how to get the cygwin stuff to link statically. Does any one have a solution. (It took the flags with no error, but the result still reference the DLL files.)

Regards, /david t. perkins

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