[HN Gopher] Convert Linux to Windows
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       Convert Linux to Windows
        
       Author : pbohun
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2025-03-29 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | petepete wrote:
       | Sounds like someone wants Lindows/Linspire.
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       | https://www.linspirelinux.com/
        
       | d3Xt3r wrote:
       | Zorin OS supports running .exes directly (via Wine of course).
       | https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/windows-app-support/
        
       | devit wrote:
       | That makes no sense: shipping all dependencies (e.g. shipping a
       | container image) gives perfect binary compatibility on Linux,
       | which is what flatpak/snap/appimage do.
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       | It can also be achieved with static linking and by shipping all
       | needed and using a shell script loader that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
       | 
       | Win32 is obviously not appropriate for GNU/Linux applications,
       | and you also have the same dependency problem here, with the same
       | solution (ship a whole Wine prefix, or maybe ship a bunch of
       | DLLs).
        
       | mappu wrote:
       | I think this attitude to the Linux ABI is maybe out of date -
       | with a 20 year old Linux binary, that's only 2005, so it will
       | almost certainly be using glibc (no archaic libc5). Glibc has
       | great backwards compatibility and the binary will work on any
       | glibc distribution today as long as you have all the .so's, same
       | as needing the .dll's on Windows.
        
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