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Re: Windows libc
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Windows libc |
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:20:04 +0100 |
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Hi Paolo,
> I'm seriously thinking of forking Wine's MSVCRT + gnulib's code to
> provide a decent native libc for Windows. That would support Windows CE
> of course.
Will this libc be interoperable with DLLs in the MS PE/COFF format? IMO this
would be essential. Microsoft's own Interix / Unix for NT did not catch on
because you could not the many system services when you decided to use the
Unix-like libc.
If someone wants to run a glibc on Windows, without the requirement of
interoperability with the system services, he can just run a Linux+glibc
system inside a virtual machine.
Bruno