If you wish to build your own copy of the coLinux Windows executables under Linux, you will need to have a cross-compiling environment. The tarball below contains all the necessary source code, scripts, and patches to build such an environment and to create the coLinux executables. In brief, the build.it.sh script does four steps: Download a copy of the Linux build environment of the 20040421 snapshot via BitTorrent: To get a BitTorrent client for your platform (Windows, Mac OS/X, Linux, etc.), visit: Tested distros and results: Copy of the build.it.sh script: A copy of the readme file: notes :