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There are also some minimal emulators online that might get you started with the basics, even if not all CMD features are present.
For example, this [Windows 95 emulator](https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/) features a more or less okay MS-DOS prompt.

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### Building packages using configure scripts written in shell script

Some packages do not provide build systems with first-hand support for Windows, in particular these using `configure` scripts using autotools, or hand-written in shell scripts.
You can use the [autotools_clang_conda](https://github.com/conda-forge/autotools_clang_conda-feedstock?tab=readme-ov-file#about-autotools_clang_conda-feedstock) to provide a build environment with a set of MSYS2 packages and a Clang toolchain configured to build packages compatible with MSVC.
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The README in autotools_clang_conda-feedstock is not properly rendered. Can you link to https://github.com/conda-forge/autotools_clang_conda-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml#L41-L74 ?

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Well, I was going to ask if we should add some "```"s to make it render as Markdown. The problem with linking to specific lines is that the link's going to become slightly wrong when the line numbers change. I could link to specific commit, but then the instructions would eventually become outdated.

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If you can get the README to render correctly, go for it.

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conda-forge/autotools_clang_conda-feedstock#22

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Is this good to go now?

The feedstock's description provides example instructions.

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## Special Dependencies and Packages
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