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Is it possible to run a program (exe) that has been written and compiled for the Linux platform to run on Windows XP?

I am thinking of an emulator for instance. You can run Spectrum games on XP via an emulator.

I wonder if there is such a program for Linux?

Any comments welcomed.

Alan

You can run some console applications on Windows with Cygwin ( http://www.cygwin.com/ ). X-windows applications, like the ones PureBasic produces, needs the X environment to run. There are a couple ways to get X going in your Windows environment.

The first would be to use a use a commercial X windows terminal and connect to a Linux host (quick Google search: http://labf.com/index.html ).

The second would be to start a Virtual PC and run Linux in that environment. There are some free virtual PC environments that work fine on Windows. I put together a small package that has all of the virtual PC apps needed and has the PureBasic stuff already configured ( http://www.penguinbyte.com/software/colinux/ ). This method uses CoLinux, Gentoo, and VNC. The networking side is a little difficult to get going but it does work. I am trying to release a new version that uses QEMU and has networking and sound already configured, but I do not have much time to devote to it at this time.

Beach,

Many thanks for your comments, the web sites make for very interesting reading.

Alan