Thread: POSIX programming in Windows?

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    POSIX programming in Windows?

    Wikipedia says "The UNIX Subsystem is built in to the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista". Does this mean I can compile POSIX programs in Visual Studio on Vista Ultimate? Well, I just tried that and Visual Studio can't find <unistd.h>

    Code:
    #include <unistd.h>
    
    int main() {
        char mycwd[255];
        if (getcwd(mycwd, 255) == NULL) {
            perror ("Failed to get current working directory");
            return 1;
        }
        printf("Current working directory: %s\n", mycwd);
        return 0;
    }

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