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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by rascul on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:47PM (#32475150)
> I feel like the problem most people run into today is glibc vs. musl differences. They develop on Ubuntu, then think they can just copy their binaries into a "FROM alpine:latest" container, which doesn't actually work.

Could it work with gcompat? Alpine has it in the community repo.

https://git.adelielinux.org/adelie/gcompat

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by naniwaduni on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:47PM (#32475847)
gcompat is roughly the "yeah the plugs look the same so just stick the 120 V device into the 240 V socket" approach to libc compatibility.
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by Hello71 on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:05PM (#32477978)
that's running it directly on musl. gcompat is more like a passive adapter which works except you need to know if the device you're plugging in actually supports 240V, which most stuff does nowadays but when it doesn't it explodes horribly.
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