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have you ever seen a .exe file that turned out to be an ELF executable? like, for linux? i wish i could say this was hypothetical

@typhlosion yeah, several times, usually by windows devs who don't know what they're doing or C# programs compiled for linux

@typhlosion yeah... just named by non unix people or maybe created with a ported build script

@typhlosion I keep thinking I once saw a single file that had both Windows and Linux executable payloads, but it was probably some intentionally wonky demoscene thing.

@typhlosion dune, the current favourite build tool for ocaml, names the executables it builds as whatever.exe, regardless of os, and i hate it :(

@typhlosion where I work, the executable binaries produced are suffixed with ".exe", even though they are for Linux.

@typhlosion yes

Also .exe which was a bash script which did its own self-extracting installer for Linux.

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