Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/27/10:00:45
Nicholas,
The Macintosh (PowerPC, big-endian) supports a very good and
high-performance emulator for i386 (little-endian) to which Windows has
been ported. It's called VirtualPC and supports Windows versions from 95 to XP.
Until the end of last year, the same company produced a Mac-hosted emulator
for the Sony PlayStation.
Regarding the Mikael's question, the only real issue about something
familiar to a Cygwin user on SunOS is whether the GNU tools are readily
available (I assume they are, or at least could be compiled there, probably
out-of-the-box). Many GNU tools have more options than do their
counterparts on other Unix systems.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 06:01 2002-05-27, you wrote:
>--- "Johansson Mikael (mj)" <mikael DOT mj DOT johansson AT volvo DOT com> wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I have two questions.
> >
> > 1. Is cygwin compatible for Sun OS, Solaris.
>The others have answered this...
>
> > 2. What is the relation between Linux and Cygwin.
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I wonder if a program placed on a
> > computer with Sun OS can execute in cygwin.
>
>
>If you are referring to running a Sparc binary on the IA32 platform, the
>answer is it will probably never happen. One of the biggest differences
>is that Sparc binaries are bigendian while IA32 are little endian in
>ordering. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to create a
>software emulator. The best bet is to see if you can't recompile the
>program, taking into account the architecture differences. If it is a
>closed-source program, see if there are any opensource alternatives and
>then try compiling those. If all else fails, reinvent the wheel;).
>
>
> > Thanks beforehand
> >
> > Mikael.
>
>Cheers,
>Nicholas
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