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This is quite funny, since you can't run unmodified linux binaries on other linuxes (that is a binary distribution on linux is generally not a thing and there will always be a distribution that does stuff just differently enough), so a recompilation on windows sounds like as good of a solution.

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The system call interface in linux is actually pretty stable. You can often run old binaries (at least ELF binaries) and binaries from different distributions as long as you have the shared libraries to go with them (including glibc). You can use a chroot or mess around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I remember from trying to use Linux on a desktop machine (and this was like a decade ago so maybe it's no longer relevant) that graphics drivers were often distributed only as binaries.

And I remember (from a decade ago as well) having to recompile my kernel to use those binary graphics drivers :)

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