On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:07:56PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: >On 6/18/2013 9:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> 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. > >Here's another: http://atratus.org/ > >Quoting their page "Atratus is a Windows program that can run unmodified >Linux binaries." ... "Atratus can load ELF format executables created >with gcc under Linux run them on a Windows system without a CPU emulator >or virtual machine". > >Haven't used it, but it does sound interesting, and its currently being >developed (version 0.10).
Interesting. That website mentions LINE which, I think is the project I was struggling to recall. 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
