X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=wJzn4NZWyf9xtmbXO6zgfGueSi/7zSqRXtFRT1SSbBY+HfNgvgK3l nS0Fq0NCGFt0xWm3KxjAG9cwn8QlRN+ZDmfKoZ4CFAKVpuwNSAXGMomJoDT6ZF1q iLe+W8UlhKZmilmYKTFgrXlsUlv6uDWGXocR6L3DN56IQ4SRPgUQgc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=M2AYHHAJCWHdbnYjW0jvel01CIg=; b=ax6kcFi0677sc9JLIqsCD6jG52WC gNdO3XxKjqPFbLRhxK+wumgF0/4hgzKAISL8V1cmTYS9LqvuYcLMPhfc7tMNZV5a 6EWSP6Yur364CMJj1/fTw0BxVgYVvz2wuCdeszkQrd/ibyZ/SDhe8ml8LhVt8REI 8tcXFPWOZ2Pr0SE= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18QNPZmvyPSxYrhyubpe0fb Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:37:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cross-compiling Linux kernel Message-ID: <20130618143755.GD5406@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <003401ce6b5d$f6ec87b0$e4c59710$%fedin AT samsung DOT com> <51BF7465 DOT 2030104 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <001301ce6bf0$ea4904a0$bedb0de0$%fedin AT samsung DOT com> <20130618101706 DOT GB27405 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20130618143308 DOT GB5406 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130618143308.GB5406@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33:08AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Jun 18 10:56, Fedin Pavel wrote: >>> [...] >>> P.S. I have got even more crazy idea, perhaps deserving a separate topic... >>> BSD systems have Linux binary compatibility layer. Could we have one ? >>> Technically this depends on ability to construct process image manually in >>> Windows (*). Is it possible (using NT API of course) ? And, of course, >>> someone needs lots of spare time to code this. :) OTOH, CoLinux already does >>> this (yep, they are not 64-bit for now...), so perhaps there's no need to >>> duplicate the job done. >> >>Not in the Cygwin DLL. As an extra DLL layer I don't have a problem >>with that. > >There was a project out there many years ago which did this. You could >run simple linux binaries on Windows. I offered to host the development >on sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com) but, IIRC, the developer never >responded. > >I don't remember what the name of the project was and I'm sure that it >won't work with more modern versions of Windows but it is a cool idea. Here's one project: http://lbw.sourceforge.net/ but I don't remember if this is the one I was thinking about or not. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple