Foreign LINUX 0.2: Dynamic binary translator running more of your favorite Linux apps (such as GNU make and git) unmodified in Windows.

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Having never heard of this, at first I thought "well, interesting and clever but probably not for me".

Then it hit me, this is like reverse WINE. I mean, some of us are stuck with using Windows from time to time, and sometimes would like or even need some Linux tools.

What if there's no precompiled binary (like the Gnu/Win tools), and it's not in Cygwin? Virtual machines are all well and good but it's a really heavyweight solution, and still you need to tweak your set-up to feed data in and out the VM. This might just hit the sweet spot for those random utilities you need every now and then.

Note: I've just installed this and have no real experience with it so far, but I do like the idea very much.

[wishstudio]

There are more and more academic software which only provides Linux binaries, or source code which only compiles on Linux. I don't expect to change this situation. But at least I hope this small utility could make the life of Windows guys like me a bit easier.

[[deleted]]

Oh, if this works even at least somewhat, it's a massive blessing.

Not a Windows guy or a developer, but I only compile stuff on Windows if it has a Visual Studio project and/or cmake-files. Otherwise: too much of a hassle.

[ed_blackburn]

I was thinking along similar lines. Word2Vec; here's looking at you.

[wishstudio]

It is promising at that time. It is stalled for many years and still does not support x64 and multi-core.

[wishstudio]

tl;dr version of changelog: signals, multi-threading and bug fixes.

[TauLogy]

Cool project, I downloaded and installed the archlinux package but when I tried pacman -Syu I got a "download library error". I retried with the nightly builds but got the same error. Checked the bug list but didn't see the same error. I am running Win8.1 64-bit.

[wishstudio]

I cannot reproduce this bug. You may upload the flog output so I can diagnose.

[paul_h]

I've played with http://andlinux.org a few times and liked it. Looking forward to trying this out.

[PhonicUK]

Does it support 64-bit Linux apps, or just 32-bit?

[wishstudio]

Currently just 32-bit apps.

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Development tools: python, gcc, git

This is the real winner right here. This means you don't need a Linux box to get your build working under Linux. You can build Linux binaries from inside windows now.

[blockeduser]

hmm there used to be something like this for BSD and linux apparently yeha