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Subject: Re: Trying to support my product on FreeBSD
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>
> I am planning to support it on FreeBSD, i have two queries :
>
> 1. *How to build my code into binaries* on FreeBSD , i have my unix make
> files. Just to give an idea i have around 200 cpp files and they complile to
> 5 binaries . I am using multithreading(posix on linux) and sockets heavily.
>

same as in linux.

possibly LITTLE code change (use ifdefs) may be needed as some libc things 
are different. but not much.

> instructions to have BSD specific binaries.I have to see what is the
> difference between Linux and Free BSD in terms of file management, their
> structure, threading model etc.

i don't use threads so i won't tell you. rest is the same. open, read, 
write lseek works the same. mmap is mostly the same.

>
>
> 2.* How to package the binaries*(RPM sort of thing). Idea is to provide a
> package to user who can install them binaries using this package by issuing
> single command.

man pkg_create