Why won't Windows EXE files work on Linux?
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What is different about the way Windows runs an executable and Linux runs an executable? Why did they have to be different? Besides, why don't Linux executables have a file extension? I'm not asking about how to make a EXE file work on Linux. I'm asking why it does not work.
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Linux and Windows executables use different formats. Linux uses the ELF format on most architectures, while Windows uses the PE format. ELF is better suited to the way Linux manages shared libraries, and PE is better suited to the way Windows manage…
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