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. 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
