On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:25:31PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >On 21 November 2007 16:07, Alain Frisch wrote: > >> (Altough at this point, one >> could also imagine that Cygwin supports another binary format for >> dynamic libraries, e.g. ELF, which can deal with unresolved symbols >> natively.) > > > Not an unreasonable idea, but very hard to make work when we really want >cygwin apps to basically be windows apps; I can't see how cygwin could support >e.g. an ELF loader and yet still be able to launch cygwin apps from cmd.exe >rather than having to fire up bash or whatever.
It could theoretically do that if it had it's own loader for ELF binaries. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
