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Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications is an add-on to the Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications (referred to as SUA, hence forth) component that shipped with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2.

• Utilities and SDK for UNIX-Based Applications is an add-on to the Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications (referred to as SUA, hence forth) component that shipped with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2. This consists of the following components:
  
  - Base Utilities
  - SVR-5 Utilities
  - Base SDK
  - GNU SDK
  - GNU Utilities
  - UNIX Perl
  - Visual Studio Debugger Add-in
  
  This release enables 64-bit application development for SUA. development and porting of custom UNIX applications using the Windows OCI (Oracle Call Interface) and Windows ODBC libraries (collectively referred to as ‘Mixed Mode’ in the rest of the document).

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Applications_AMD64.exe SHA1: 69683da049ef25ee647b77e8ff3885a8f9016149	182.34 MB
Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Applications_X86.exe SHA1: ba7bbc5e53842d2493a639ff91acde8f92a7292d	179.38 MB

• Windows Server 2003 R2

• Standard installation
  
  1. Download the Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications from the website.
  2. In the Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications Wizard dialog box, click Next.
  3. In the User name box, type your name. If the name of your organization does not appear in the Organization box, type the name of your organization there.
  4. Read the End User License Agreement carefully. If you accept the terms of the agreement, click I accept the terms in the License Agreement, and then click Next to continue installation. If you click I do not accept the License Agreement (Exit Setup), the installation procedure terminates.
  5. To install default Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications components in the default directory, click Standard Installation, and then click Next. To customize your installation, see "Custom Installation," later in this topic.
  
  Custom installation
  
  1. Download the Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications from the website.
  2. In the Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications Wizard dialog box, click Next.
  3. In the User name box, type your name. If the name of your organization does not appear in the Organization box, type the name of your organization there.
  4. Read the End User License Agreement carefully. If you accept the terms of the agreement, click I accept the terms in the License Agreement, and then click Next to continue installation. If you click I do not accept the License Agreement (Exit Setup), the installation procedure terminates.
  5. To install default Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications components in the default directory, click Standard Installation, and then click Next (see "Standard Installation/Express Upgrade," discussed previously in this topic). If you want to specify a different set of components, click Custom Installation, and then click Next.
  6. Click the icon next to each component that you want to install, and then click the appropriate option. If you do not want to install a component, click the icon next to the component, and then click Entire feature will not be available. When you are finished specifying the components to install, click Next.
  7. If you are installing the GNU Software Development Kit (SDK), read the information about the GNU Library General Public License carefully. If you want to install the GNU SDK, click Next to continue installation. If you click Back, you will be given another opportunity to select the components to install.
  
  Notes
  
  1. After you have installed Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications, you still have the option to install additional components or remove installed components when you so choose.
  2. Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications components cannot be run from a network server. All files must be installed on the local computer.
  3. The Standard Installation does not provide a complete UNIX development environment. To obtain all of the GNU compilers, build tools, and other SDK components, you must select Custom Installation and then select GNU SDK.
  4. In this install, setuid behavior will be disabled by default. This will affect how certain SUA programs behave.
  5. In this install, case sensitivity will not be enabled for object names (such as file names) in non-Win32 subsystems.
  
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