fork/chroot equivalent for Windows server application

Question

I have written a small custom web server application in C running on Linux. When the application receives a request it calls fork() and handles the request in a separate pro

Answer 1

The absolutely simplest way of doing it is using Cygwin, the free Unix emulation layer for Windows. Download it and install a complete development environment. (Choose in the installer.) If you are lucky, you will be able to compile your program as is, no changes at all.

Of course there are downsides and some might consider this "cheating" but you asked for the simplest solution.