How do you compile a the latest Linux Kernel 2.4.2 on Windows 9x? And then clean install the compiled binaries on my machine. What is the best site explain this?

I like the way people come up with creative ideas. :) Although this might be possible I would not recommend you to do this. If you want to do it anyway I hope you know a bit about programming and how compilers work. First of all I suggest you do some research. Read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html Also you would need a windows compiler which would produce linux binaries. I've never heard of such a compiler but then again I never looked for one. You would most likely also have to modify the makefile since you are compiling on a totally different OS. So I suggest you study a manual on how makefiles are constructed. If you are persistent enough to try and actually do manage to do it. Please post how you got it done so some other people with creative minds will be able to do the same. If you just want the latest kernel but don't have a distribution that includes this. Just install the distribution and compile the kernel using that distribution and install it that way. This is a lot simpler but if you would like a (big) challenge then you would try to compile it in windows. Good look on your quest. Mik

VC++ will attempt to use Windows libraries to compile. These require Windows to be useful. There is also an issue of object file formats. Linux uses ELF format (but that's as far as I know). If you remember back in the days of DOS, Turbo C++ and Microsoft C++ did not use compatible object files (or, for that matter, compatible libraries). The include files were in different spot and were actually named differently. Even porting code from Linux to Windows is difficult. The basic IO functions: open, write, read and close are named __open, __write, __read and __close in Windows. I spent over an hour one night trying to make the code compile and then decided it would be better to beat my head against the wall because I would have to do the same thing when I changed the original Linux code (I'm bad about that.) A LOT of code/Makefiles are written to be portable. In recent memory, Mozilla code is completely compatible between Windows and Linux (and about 50 other OSs) through creative use of #defines. I wouldn't expect the kernel to be, though. Good luck and as said above, "If you make it work, please post how you did it." That would be awesome!