Foreign LINUX - Run unmodified Linux applications inside Windows.
Foreign LINUX - Run unmodified Linux applications inside Windows.
IRC: #flinux at freenode
Google groups: flinux
Foreign LINUX is a dynamic binary translator and a Linux system call interface emulator for the Windows platform. It is capable of running unmodified Linux binaries on Windows without any drivers or modifications to the system. This provides another way of running Linux applications under Windows in constrast to Cygwin and other tools. It now runs a large bunch of console applications and some GUI applications.
Download a premade archlinux environment here.
Extract it anywhere on your harddrive. Then run run_bash.cmd to open bash. You will get a minimal archlinux environment.
Then you can run pacman -Syu to update all packages to the current version. Then use pacman -S <name> to install any packages you want.
Development snapshots: you can download development versions of the software here. Just replace the two executables (flinux.exe and flog.exe) for an update.
This project still lacks functionality required for many Linux applications. Any help is greatly appreciated. You can contribute using the following ways:
This software is licensed in GPLv3+.
Are there anyone fork this?
links2 does not work
Support AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL sockets.
Does flinux currently work?
Redesign dbt x86 decoding table
Permissions 0755 for '/root/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open
change to archlinux32 image stie still cannot update
*premade archlinux environment* link not working
flinux stalls under Cygwin.
`gfortran -o xxx.o` does not produce any output