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Title: Windows-specific Utilities
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Ross Burton

# Windows-specific Utilities

These functions provide some level of Unix emulation on the
Windows platform. If your application really needs the POSIX
APIs, we suggest you try the [Cygwin project](https://cygwin.com/).

 * [type@GLib.Win32OSType]
 * [func@GLib.win32_check_windows_version]
 * [func@GLib.win32_get_command_line]
 * [func@GLib.win32_error_message]
 * [func@GLib.win32_getlocale]
 * [func@GLib.win32_get_package_installation_directory]
 * [func@GLib.win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module]
 * [func@GLib.win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory]
 * [func@GLib.win32_get_windows_version]
 * [func@GLib.win32_locale_filename_from_utf8]
 * [func@GLib.WIN32_HAVE_WIDECHAR_API]
 * [func@GLib.WIN32_IS_NT_BASED]

## Deprecated API

 * [func@GLib.WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME]