RE: am i a major problem?

[Philipp Gühring <p.guehring@enemy.org>]

Dos and Linux portability
>and scheme and... If you want it to run as a native binary, it has
to be >compiled specifically for the os,

NO!
It just have to be linked on the native system, optionally
dynamically linked. It only has to be compiled to the target platform
(i386, alpha, sparc, ...), not the system. (It´s hard to be specific
here, please excuse, if I am wrong)

> but there are plenty of
cross platform sdk's >to make that a nominal task :)

A proof-of-concept implementation of that idea can be found at
http://www.planet.net/pjoshv/cross-elf.html

Many greetings,
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