Cross-compiling Linux kernel

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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. ;-)

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Larry

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