[Wine] Run linux binaries on Windows

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 08:13:04 CST 2010


On 7 February 2010 12:07, oiaohm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> The best way to run Linux binaries is a Linux or freebsd kernel or solarias kernel.  Guess what all 3 have in common there core executable fileformat is elf.  So memory matches up.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_layer talks about this a
bit. Even on systems that are both Unix and both ELF, it can be
*really* difficult, e.g. Irix compatibility on NetBSD:
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/irix.html


- d.



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