Interix - Details

Details

The complete installation of Interix includes (at version 3.5):

  • Over 350 Unix utilities such as vi, ksh, csh, ls, cat, awk, grep, kill, etc.
  • A complete set of manual pages for utilities and APIs
  • GCC 3.3 compiler, includes and libraries
  • A cc/c89-like wrapper for Microsoft Visual Studio command-line C/C++ compiler
  • GNU Debugger
  • X11 client applications and libraries (no X server included though, you can use Xming for example)
  • Has Unix "root" capabilities (i.e. setuid files)
  • Has pthreads, shared libraries, DSOs, job control, signals, sockets, shared memory

The development environment includes support for C, C++ and Fortran. Threading is supported using the Pthreads model. Additional languages can be obtained (Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.). Unix-based software packaging and build tools are available for installing or creating pre-build software packages.

Starting with release 5.2 (Server 2003/R2) the following capabilities were added:

  • "Mixed mode" for linking Unix programs with Windows DLLs
  • 64-bit CPU support (in addition to 32-bit)
  • Large file system support on 64-bit systems
  • System V utilities can be optionally installed instead of the default BSD-based utilities
  • MSVC debugging plug-in
  • SVR4 based utilities as an alternate installation
  • Database (OCI/ODBC) library connectivity

With release 6.0 (Vista and Server 2008) the following new features were added:

  • IPv6 support for socket APIs and daemons
  • Updates to utilities for additional functionality
  • MSVC debugging plug-in enhanced

Interix release 6.0 for Vista is only available with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions.

Interix release 6.1 is available for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 for the Enterprise and Ultimate editions.

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