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234 lines
6.3 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: compat_pecoff.8,v 1.6 2000/12/03 02:39:42 minoura Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2000 The PEACE Project.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
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.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
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.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
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.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd July 17, 2000
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.Dt COMPAT_PECOFF 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm compat_pecoff
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.Nd setup procedure for running Win32 applications (a.k.a. PEACE)
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nx
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has partial support for running
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.Tn Win32
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applications.
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This manual page describes how to run
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.Tn Win32
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(and hopefully
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.Tn WinCE
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in the future) applications on
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.Nx .
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Note that PE (Portable Executable) is a Microsoft extension to the
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.Tn COFF
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executable file format.
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.Sh BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE WIN32 API
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The
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.Tn Win32
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API is an application program interface (API) for 32-bit
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applications for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000. The
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.Tn Win32
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API is provided
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via a set of core DLLs (Dynamically Linked Libraries), including
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.Pa KERNEL32.DLL , USER32.DLL
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and
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.Pa GDI32.DLL .
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.Pp
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The structure of these core DLLs and the interface between the
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operating system kernel and userland is implementation-dependent.
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Each implementation must provide its own core DLLs.
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Therfore, these DLLs are different for
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.Tn "Windows 98"
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and
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.Tn "Windows 2000" .
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.Pp
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.Pa KERNEL32.DLL
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is used by all
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.Tn Win32
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applications; it provides basic
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kernel interface such as file access, process control, memory management etc.
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.Pp
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.Pa USER32.DLL
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is used by most
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.Tn Win32
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applications; it provides basic
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userland functions such as GUI and messaging.
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.Pp
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.Pa GDI32.DLL
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provides functions to draw images and characters.
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.Pp
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.Pa SHELL32.DLL
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is the Windows shell support, including file association.
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.Pp
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.Pa COMCTL32.DLL
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and
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.Pa COMDLG.32.DLL
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are GUI components which are commonly
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used in many applications.
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.Pa WSOCK32.DLL
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provides the networking API.
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.Pa DDRAW.DLL
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is for
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.Tn DirectDraw .
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.Pp
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Most other DLLs are compatible among all the implementations and
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therefore can be shared.
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.Sh NETBSD SUPPORT FOR THE WIN32 API
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.Nx
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support for
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.Tn Win32
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applications is developed by the PEACE Project, and is
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under active development.
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Currently it can run some console applications including the
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.Tn "Windows 2000"
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.Pa CMD.EXE
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as well as a small number of GUI applications.
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.Pp
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The PEACE system consists of three parts: the kernel part, the dynamic
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loader and the core DLLs.
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.Pp
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The kernel part provides loading and executing
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.Tn PE/COFF
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format executable binaries; i.e. it extends the
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.Xr execve 2
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system call, just like other binary compatibility options.
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It is activated by enabling the
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.Dv COMPAT_PECOFF
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kernel option.
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.Pp
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The dynamic loader is the
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.Tn PE/COFF
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version of
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.Xr ld.so 1 .
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It reads the file header of the executable binary, and
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loads required DLLs.
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.Pp
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The core DLLs implement the actual
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.Tn Win32
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API functions as described in the
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previous section. Since the kernel part does not provide
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any additional system calls and other kernel interface,
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all
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.Tn Win32
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API functions are implemented on top of the existing
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.Nx
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APIs (system calls and standard libraries such as
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.Pa libc
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and
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.Pa libX11 ) .
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.Sh PREPARING THE PEACE DYNAMIC LOADER AND CORE DLLS
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Development snapshots of the dynamic loader can be retrieved from
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.Pa http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/dist/peace-i386-ld.so.dll-*.gz ,
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where `*' is replaced with the snapshot date.
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Simply
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.Xr gunzip 1
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the file and copy the resulting file to
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.Pa /usr/libexec/ld.so.dll .
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.Pp
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The core DLLs can also be retrieved from
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.Pa http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/dist/peace-i386-dll-*.tgz .
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The dynamic loader searches for required DLLs from the following directories:
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.Bl -enum -compact
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.It
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.Pa /usr/lib
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.It
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Directories listed in the environment variable
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.Ev DLLPATH
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(separated by colons)
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.It
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The directory where the executable is located
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.El
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The core DLLs are required to be installed into
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.Pa /usr/lib ,
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in order to use
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.Pa CMD.EXE
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(or another
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.Tn Win32
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application) as the login shell.
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.Pp
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According to the development phase, some other PEACE-specific DLLs
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might be distributed separately. Please check the announcements
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on the Web or the mailing list.
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.Pp
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Other DLLs can be stored in arbitrary directories specified by the
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environment variable
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.Ev DLLPATH .
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To use
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.Tn "Windows NT/2000"
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DLLs installed on a separate partition of the local disk directly
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for
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.Nx ,
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type:
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.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
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mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/wd0h /nthd
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setenv DLLPATH /nthd/WINNT/SYSTEM32:/nthd/WINNT
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.Ed
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(assuming csh).
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr gunzip 1 ,
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.Xr ld.so 1 ,
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.Xr execve 3 ,
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.Xr options 4 ,
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr mount_ntfs 8 ,
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.Pa http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/
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.Sh HISTORY
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Kernel support for
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.Tn PE/COFF
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appeared in
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.Nx 1.5 .
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.Sh AUTHOR
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Implementation of
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.Tn Win32
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binary compatibility support for
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.Nx
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was started by Masaru Oki.
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The PEACE Project is founded by him to implement enormous number of functions
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in the
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.Tn Win32/WinCE
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API.
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.Sh BUGS
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.Bl -hyphen -compact
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.It
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Currently only the i386 platform is supported.
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.It
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Most functions in
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.Tn Win32
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are missing.
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.It
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The dynamic loader and core DLLs are not provided in the standard
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distribution of
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.Nx .
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This is because a cross-compiler is required to build them.
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.El
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