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Cygwin is not wine. Wine lets you run existing windows executables unmodified on Linux. Cygwin does not let you run ELFs on windows.
by nialv7 1y ago
Cygwin is not wine. Wine lets you run existing windows executables unmodified on Linux. Cygwin does not let you run ELFs on windows.
- amiga386 1y agoGood point, using wine as the interpreter for PE executables is another cool part of the WINE project. But it is the case that you can build a Windows application from source on Linux and link it with libwine, in the same way you can build a Unix program from source on Windows and link it with cygwin.dll -- I seem to remember some time ago CorelDRAW (or at least Corel Photo-Paint) was made available for Linux that way, officially supported by Corel.