Recompiling / Running Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) on Windows

I don't have much in the way of Unix/Linux experience but are wondering if it is possible in any way to run DSOs on Windows? Can these be recompiled so they will execute?

Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me.

Dave.

Short answer: no.

Long answer: if we're talking about PHP extensions here, you can get the source code for the extension and recompile it for Windows if you have some form of Visual Studio installed on your computer. You can also find alot of precompiled PHP extensions at http://windows.php.net/