Re: Linux binaries compatibility
Re: Linux binaries compatibility
- Subject: Re: Linux binaries compatibility
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:31:22 +0200
Am 31.08.2005 um 08:37 schrieb email@hidden:
Provided that both FreeBSD and Solaris support Linux binaries
compatibility, thru the use of kernel modules and ELF binary
support, would it be possible to implement this feature in Mac OS X
on x86 platform,
There are various people, including me, who wish such a
functionality. The closest things I'm arware of so far are the
Darwine project <http://darwine.opendarwin.org/> and Qemu <http://
fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/>.
and, if yes, at which cost/effort ?
Obviously, you need an ELF linker. This linker probably should be
able to link ELF binaries to ELF libraries as well as on-the-fly
modified mach-o libraries. To get things running smoothly, a small
kernel patch would be required to make the kernel acknowledge ELF
binaries.
Alternatively, dyld could be modified/extended to deal with ELF -
this would require small patches (add a mach-o header) to all ELF
binaries, though.
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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