I've been checking out how projects like #Busybox-w32, #msys and #GNUWin32 handle links in their utility programs like ln & ls. The comparison is very interesting. I really like Busybox-w32's use of hard links and how they show up with ls -i. They've done a wonderful job getting Busybox working on Windows. I'm investigating if Busybox-w32 can be used in place of msys when building #FLOSS #C projects with #mingw.

I build a lot of #FLOSS #C programs from source. I've been looking into replacing #msys on #Windows with #busybox-w32 ash and some alternatives to core utilities. I've been wanting to get rid of msys for a while and use natively built utilities that don't require Cygwin style DLLs. There are projects like #gnuwin32 and #GOW. Anyone else interested in this sort of thing?