* Re: A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS...
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@ 2001-01-01 19:16 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-01-01 21:17 ` Tim Prince
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 2001-01-01 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dj Shark; +Cc: cygwin
Dj Shark wrote:
> Hello there,I am recently new to the cygwin project, but found it an
> excellent tool in compiling c programs.I have seen your email in the
> mailing lists, so I hope I'm not imposing any trouble by asking you
> the fllowing question: I've encountered one major problem, which maybe
> you can solve: When attempting to run gcc, in cygwin enviroment, with
> objects which were made for SUN OS (Solaris, I think) Unix enviroment,
> and which are supposed to work fine with gcc, gcc starts printing
> linkage errors such as:
It is *not* possible to take an object built for a different OS and use
it with Cygwin. You can create cross-compilers that will build objects
for differing platforms; but, you can't take an object built for one
platform to be usable on another.
Cheers,
Earnie
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* Re: A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS...
2001-01-01 19:16 ` A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS Earnie Boyd
@ 2001-01-01 21:17 ` Tim Prince
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From: Tim Prince @ 2001-01-01 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin, Dj Shark; +Cc: cygwin
Not even for a different OS running on the same box, but it would be nice to
be able to use i386 linux libraries at times.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Dj Shark" <djshrk@gmx.net>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: A Question regarding importing objects from SUN OS...
> It is *not* possible to take an object built for a different OS and use
> it with Cygwin. You can create cross-compilers that will build objects
> for differing platforms; but, you can't take an object built for one
> platform to be usable on another.
>
> Cheers,
> Earnie
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