On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:48, Aaron Weber wrote: > Is the following true? If so, what does it mean-- what will happen if > I fail to "make the EXE binaries compatible with the kernel?"
You don't make EXE's compatible with the kernel. Instead, you instruct the kernel to use a wrapper ELF (native) binary to bootstrap (launch) the EXE program. That's what BINFMT is for: while trying to launch an EXE, the kernel detects the file signature is not a native one, looks the BINFMT registered formats and tries to look for a match. If a match is found, the corresponding bootstraper native binary is used to launch the non-native program. BINFMT can also used to launch EXE files using WINE or .class files using the JVM. > You can make your mono .exe files executable by following these steps: > > 1. Enabling binfmt in your kernel. This adds support to launch non-native binaries using a bootstrap loader. > 1. Adding the line below to your fstab: > binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc none Needed to configure BINFMT support. > 1. On boot run the command below: > echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register This adds a new executable format for EXE files. Thus, the next time you launch a file whose signature matches the "MZ" signature of an EXE file, /usr/bin/mono will be used to bootstrap the EXE program. _______________________________________________ Mono-docs-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list
