You get classic tools like:
No Cygwin or MSYS required – these are native Windows executables.
Apple publishes cctools source under the APSL (Apple Public Source License) at: Cctools 6.5 Download
https://opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/
Navigate to: cctools-6.5.tar.gz (direct link example, may redirect): You get classic tools like:
https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/cctools/cctools-6.5.tar.gz
To use: You must compile on macOS with appropriate build flags. This provides the tools but not the system headers or ld64 matching that version.
Build reproducible toolchain step:
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Best for: Developers, power users, and anyone who misses Unix-style command-line tools on Windows.
Download the source tarball directly from the official repository: No Cygwin or MSYS required – these are
wget https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/releases/download/release-6.5/cctools-6.5.0-source.tar.gz
tar -xzf cctools-6.5.0-source.tar.gz
cd cctools-6.5.0
tar xzf cctools-6.5.tar.gz
cd cctools-6.5
./configure --prefix=/opt/cctools-6.5
make
sudo make install
Requires Apple’s libld64 source separately (if linking needed).