Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <010b01c27df8$606aab40$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= , References: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5AD63A84@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file? Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:35:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sven Köhler wrote: >> 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 not quickly, easily and without writing some custom software, surely? > but this is to complicated, and i would recomm him, to use a > remote-shell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/