glibc under windows

Question

Is it (or would it) be possible to use glibc under windows (as a replacement of msvcrt)? I knwo this is a stupid question, and answers like cygwin will pop up, but I am really asking: is it possible to link to glibc on windows and use all library functions like with msvcrt?

Answer 1

glibc used to work on different *nixes once , these days glibc is quite Linux specific. It will certainly not work on windows.

Answer 2

You can use glibc on Windows with Cygwin. It is a somewhat cumbersome solution however, especially if you want to deploy such applications.