On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:05:56PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 6/18/2013 2:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > >Yeah, I was just going to mention LINE. I don't know why I can remember >the name of such an obscure (although very interesting!) project and not >the name of people I just met. ;-)
Don't feel bad about it Harry. It happens to all of us. 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
