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Compatibility Layers

Software that provides a compatibility layer by translating Windows API calls into POSIX-compliant calls, enabling Windows applications to run on Unix-like systems without full hardware emulation.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

17 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
33,574
6,343
$5M
NixOS
30,984
6,770
$197M
Proton
15,537
2,379
$57M
Bottles
3,817
440
$943K
DOSBox-X
1,979
194
$98M
Winetricks
1,594
318
$1.3M
vkd3d-proton
1,331
192
$8.3M
Box64
1,234
194
$19M
MXE (M cross environment)
1,182
267
$7.1M
Steam Runtime
847
240
$147K
Wine-tkg
837
132
$198M
MSYS2 Runtime
715
168
$38M
Cosmopolitan Libc
709
251
$135M
ReactOS
581
125
$378M
MinGW-w64
283
71
$93M
Cygwin
0
0
$0
Wine
0
0
$0
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