The mingw32-basic-bsdtar package provides an implementation of tar(1) for native Win32 platforms that is statically linked -- that is, has no dependencies on external DLLs other than those provided by the Win32 platform. basic-bsdtar has somewhat limited functionality compared to the other versions of bsdtar provided by the MinGW/MSYS project (msys-bsdtar and mingw32-bsdtar). However, it supports tar archives in the ustar, pax, and gnutar formats, compressed using gzip, bzip2, lzma, or xz.