Good alternatives to Cygwin? - Cygwin doesn't support natively support Win32 apps

Question

Update 1/9/2014: TL;DR version: Go to bottom of this post for a way to get Cygwin to be able to call non-Cygwin programs.

After having spent the ti

Answer 1

MSYS

There may be fewer "supported" packages, in that you have to install things by hand, but there won't be:

• Path issues (cygpath is a non-solution, as you can't always shove it in)
• Programs confused by cygwin packages reporting their OS as 'cygwin'
• .dll/.so/.lib/.a confusion

And there is much better interop with windows applications.