From 5544d5c76c0e3962d029391378a6d33b42c8d588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Kokot Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:40:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add MinGW and MSYS to Windows section --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 02af8c3..e414f66 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -558,6 +558,8 @@ These are items relevant *only* on OS X. - Another option to get Unix look and feel under Windows is [Cash](https://github.com/dthree/cash). Note that only very few Unix commands and command-line options are available in this environment. +- Alternative option to get GNU developer tools (such as GCC) on Windows, is [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and its [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) package that provides utilities such as bash, gawk, make and grep. MSYS doesn't have all the features compared to Cygwin. + ## More resources - [awesome-shell](https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell): A curated list of shell tools and resources.