[linux-help] Re: interchanging executables

[james l <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It will work with static librarys if the systems are posix compliant 
(Unicies), but I don't think that it will work (without the use of an 
emulator) on anything else, unless they are written in asm.

I use Netscape on an Alpha running linux but it was compiled for Tru64 Unix 
(or whatever Compaq is calling Digital Unix these days.) Because they are 
both posix and compaq has put out some compatability libs for linux, I can 
run it. Another example is a game I play called netrek. I have a client that 
is for OSF/1 and is statically compiled, and runs fine.

But between OSes that don't try to maintain a binary compatibility (basically 
anything aside from *nix) I would seriously doubt that they will work unless 
there is some special code included that says Do this if running windows, and 
this if running linux. This does happen in Makefiles, but I don't know of a 
way to do it in an executable.

James L


On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure on this, but while you might be able to use compiled
> object files (at least in certain situations) on other operating
> systems, I don't think an executable would work. An executable
> contains code that is used to get the program loaded into memory and
> execute. That is pretty OS dependent. This would be especially true if
> the program uses any shared libraries.
>
>
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