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
