looking for information on porting Linux apps to windows

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Today I've encountered a very good book : UNIX to Linux® Porting: A Comprehensive Reference By Alfredo Mendoza, Chakarat Skawratananond, Artis Walker

This reminded me of the thing I always wanted to know. "Porting Linux apps to Windows". I mean porting native Linux apps to native Windows with no platforms involved.

If I can find any good book which explains this topic. I've lot of amazing linux command line tools in mind which needs a windows port.

Please point me to relevant articles/tutorials/books.

PS: please don't tell me to use linux emulation platforms like Cygwin.

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