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From: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Dj Shark" <djshrk AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS...
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:18:53 -0800
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Not even for a different OS running on the same box, but it would be nice to
be able to use i386 linux libraries at times.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Dj Shark" <djshrk AT gmx DOT net>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS...


> It is *not* possible to take an object built for a different OS and use
> it with Cygwin.  You can create cross-compilers that will build objects
> for differing platforms; but, you can't take an object built for one
> platform to be usable on another.
>
> Cheers,
> Earnie



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