X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:53:30 -0400 From: "Brett Serkez" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Executables made by Linux is not running on Cygwin In-Reply-To: <48FC99A9.5080108@alcatel-lucent.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7D453D0504B6A2429F98F4D72CBEDE493DCA5775@nwd2exm5.ad.analog.com> <48FC99A9.5080108@alcatel-lucent.it> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Danilo Turina wrote: > The long answer is... well there are hundreds of brilliant persons in this > list that can give you the long answer better than I could possibly do. Cygwin is source compatible, not binary compatible with Linux. This means source code needs to be compiled specifically for Linux or Cygwin. This is true of many versions of UNIX and even between 32 and 64 bit versions of each OS. Brett -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/