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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:35:24 -0000
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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.


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