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Re: Cross-compiling Linux kernel
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:23:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cross-compiling Linux kernel
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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
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