Re: Running i386 win32 bins
 

At least ARM and x86 are 32bit. It'd be even harder to do 64.

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Sorry then what I meant was emulate it.

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Compile what - talking about symbian900, symbianit, or how-it's-called. I've not decided yet

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Compile the kernel first then and then in a chroot compile the userland tools and build inside out from there?

Have you ever built an OS from scratch? It varies and it's not an easy thing, even if you are just porting.

EDIT: That doesn't even make sense in a mobile environment. Scratch that. Kernel first still applies though

Re: Running i386 win32 bins
 

any way of porting w32 apps? that aint open src

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To port an app, you need the source. You can't port it without...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting

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Not really, although it would be extremely hard and almost undoable for big applications, but you could (theoretically) disassemble the application convert it to C++ (there are tools for that, though the code is unreadable) and then port it.

Please check this:
http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/
It's a remake of a very ancient game. The author did it by directly hacking the original x86 asm code disassembled by him.
Then another guy "ported" it to C++ using a tool called VIGASOCO:
http://www.abadiadelcrimen.com/vigasoco.html

Nice, isn't it?

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You'd need a passion to convert something from x86 ASM. And I doubt it was written in a low level language like that game. Looking at a .net program through a decompiler is like staring into an abyss

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I was trying to answer in the context the question was asked ;)

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Haha, yes but there is always someone out there doing amazing things!