Shared libraries

If you really want to you can emulate Linux binaries from other architectures relatively transparently using qemu-user and binfmt_misc. Of course you still need a full set of libraries for them just as you would if you ran the code on that platform. Mostly it is useful for things like chroots with mounted SD-Cards for low power embedded devices where the emulation on your PC is still much faster and has more RAM available to compile stuff.