From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2839 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2011 01:42:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 2831 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2011 01:42:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_CG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:42:33 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Nx2-0005By-Gj for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:42:32 -0700 Message-ID: <31263838.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:28:00 -0000 From: independentt To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash: Cannot execute binary file In-Reply-To: <20110329013343.GD12793@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <31263793.post@talk.nabble.com> <20110329013343.GD12793@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00809.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:27:57PM -0700, independentt wrote: >> >>Ok here is my problem I used to be able to run bIRCD on a shell before. But >>now first time I try cygwin, I WGET >>http://ircd.bircd.org/bewareircd-linux.tar.gz and unzip it, edit the config >>files. And now I try to execute it using (.) ./BIRCD and it says BASH: >>Cannot execute binary file. I have full access to the file and when I type >>file bircd it says ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>(GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped. > > If you go to http://cygwin.com/ and look under "...isn't it?" you'll see: > > Cygwin is not: > > * a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your > application from source if you want it to run on Windows. > > If file says "ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 version 1 > (GNU/Linux)", it means it's a Linux file. That means that you have to > build a Cygwin/Windows version of bircd. What you have is not a Cygwin > version. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > how do I build a cygwin version of bircd? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Bash%3A-Cannot-execute-binary-file-tp31263793p31263838.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple