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From:	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file?
Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:13:31 +0100
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> But if I understand you correctly, you were given ".so" binary files. 
> You won't be able to just take compiled Linux code and run it in 
> Cygwin: Cygwin is not UNIX.. Cygwin is a UNIX-like wrapper around 
> Windows. Cygwin is not an emulator for Linux binaries.
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood.


i think you didn't misunderstood him, but as an .so-file only contains 
some compiled code and links to other libraries, an .so-file may be made 
compatible to cygwin.
but this is to complicated, and i would recomm him, to use a remote-shell.




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