Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:32:15 -0400 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: ELF-binaries under NT? Message-ID: <20000413143215.A13886@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <5D2A198567EED311BD0F009027A25C870D7EBD AT SRVMAIL-ANN> <20000413120333 DOT B12426 AT cygnus DOT com> <38F61023 DOT 875A9F9E AT sigma6 DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38F61023.875A9F9E@sigma6.com>; from jsturm@sigma6.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:21:23PM -0400 On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:21:23PM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:10:29PM +0200, William Gacquer wrote: >> >I don't agree with you DJ, I once got a a small application running on >> >windows thanks to an elf loader. I'll search it again on the internet and >> >send the URL ASAP. >> >> I would be *extremely* surprised if you could get any application running >> that was compiled on linux. You'd have to emulate every single linux >> system call for this to work. > >It's not the system calls that are a problem. You'd have to have the >complete glibc ported to Windows. Most applications never perform >system calls directly. Nope. You'd still need system calls somewhere along the line, just to load the libc.so file since, of course, you'd need to implement linux's version of linking. You wouldn't need all of them, though, for just this. That's correct. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com