Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert a ".so" file to a ".a" file? Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:13:31 +0100 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5AD63A84@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e58a16.dip.t-dialin.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035749261 17920 217.229.138.22 (27 Oct 2002 20:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:07:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: de, en In-Reply-To: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5AD63A84@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> > But if I understand you correctly, you were given ".so" binary files. > You won't be able to just take compiled Linux code and run it in > Cygwin: Cygwin is not UNIX.. Cygwin is a UNIX-like wrapper around > Windows. Cygwin is not an emulator for Linux binaries. > > Or maybe I misunderstood. i think you didn't misunderstood him, but as an .so-file only contains some compiled code and links to other libraries, an .so-file may be made compatible to cygwin. but this is to complicated, and i would recomm him, to use a remote-shell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/