Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c

Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by asveikau on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:28PM (#23306909)

Are you aware that the original binary format of Linux was not ELF?

Then, the last time I tried to run a binary from the 90s, it required libc5, from the days before distros switched to glibc.

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Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by msla on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:10PM (#23307061)

> Are you aware that the original binary format of Linux was not ELF?

Yes, and having an a.out interpreter is just another dependency.

> Then, the last time I tried to run a binary from the 90s, it required libc5, from the days before distros switched to glibc.

It's a library. libc is versioned like everything else.

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Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by asveikau on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:46PM (#23307221)

Nobody is distributing that library anymore. Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies.

I would think that the kernel would have dropped binfmt_aout by now, but I just looked and it's still there. Wonder if any distros build it.

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Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by chungy on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:57AM (#23307562)

> Nobody is distributing that library anymore.

There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/servers.

> Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies.

I wouldn't go so far. The 64-bit port of Windows dropped support for all 16-bit applications, whereas they still run flawlessly through Wine.

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