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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Porting Tips
To: Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at>
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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

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