Compatibility layer

Interface that allows binaries to run on particular system In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system. This translates system calls for the foreign system into native system calls for the host system. With some libraries for the foreign system, this will often be sufficient to run foreign binaries on the host system. A hardware compatibility layer consists of tools that allow hardware emulation. Software Examples include: Wine, which runs some Microsoft Windows binaries on Unix-like systems using a program loader and the Windows API implemented in DLLs Windows' application compatibility layers to attempt to run poorly written applications or those written for earlier versions of the platform. KernelEX, which runs some Windows 2000/XP programs on Windows 98/Me, and Windows XP programs on Windows 2000. Prism is a Microsoft emulator for ARM-powered Windows devices that translates the underlying code of software built for traditional x86 and x64 binaries from Windows 11 24H2 Windows Subsystem for Linux 1, which runs Linux binaries on Windows via a compatibility layer which translates Linux s