Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:41:00 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> To: Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting Tips Message-ID: <20020625104100.72418.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1024999359.677.16.camel@martin.kleinerdrache.org>
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--- Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at> wrote: > Am Di, 2002-06-25 um 11.23 schrieb Gavin Kenny: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I'm going to have a go at porting the VideoLan > Server > > to FreeBSD. It was written for Linux and there is > a > > Darwin (Mac OS) port, so I'm kinda hoping it > shouldn't > > be too hard (famous last words). > > > > I never written anything for FreeBSD, so what > should I > > look out for? Any good pointers, tips, different > > naming conventions for libraries etc or better > still > > HOW-TO's, would be really useful. > > Do you know the Porters Handbook? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ > > Martin > > -- I have had a look at it but it seems more concerned in building a FreeBSD Port (a fantastic invention by the way ;-) rather than how to take a piece of software that was written for Linux (or any other operating system) and getting it to compile and run on FreeBSD. Am I being naive? Gavin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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