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From: "Jay Krell" <jay DOT krell AT cornell DOT edu>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: ELF-binaries under NT?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:52:52 -0700
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Why go that far? Stdio should be enough for many programs? (plus "crt0.o")
There's stuff out there that will run Win32 stdio apps under DOS, which is
similar.
Then again, the easier to get running this way, the easier to recompile..

  - Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: ELF-binaries under NT?


>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.
>
>cgf



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