Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:50:04 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? ) Message-ID: <199905111850.LAA24153@boreas.isi.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Fumerola wrote: >How often do I see a author make a program and release _one_ FreeBSD >binary and about 5 different binaries depending on what linux libc format >you have. On a related note, I don't know if people use xanim, a movie viewer in the ports collection, but it's recently been upgraded to support dynamically loadable codecs. The problem is that none of the codecs are compiled for FreeBSD, although there are three Linux versions :-). To use them (really to use the program at all) you have to compile a Linux version of xanim and run under emulation (which works really well, thanks emulation guys!). Yes, I've tried using the Linux codecs on the FreeBSD binary. No dice. The author is perfectly willing to compile these codecs for FreeBSD, but because he's under NDA for the codecs he can only release compiled versions. He's only willing to compile versions for other OSes under Linux (i.e. compile the codecs for FreeBSD on his Linux machine) or on a donated machine. (His reasoning for this, which IMHO is rational, is on http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_dlls.html ) Given that he's running Linux, is a "cross-compiling environment" any more complex than having him link against our libc? If not can someone give me an idea what he does need. I'm delighted to act as a contact point and a tester for the xanim author, but I just don't know enough about our link environment. Anyone want to enlighten me? (I tried this on multimedia, and got no response). - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Faber faber@isi.edu USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber (310) 822-1511 x190 PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNzh724b4eisfQ5rpAQGgSgP+NohAmLnZxdWK9D9lYGyjLoQ0vhUtMb1u LsgVyZ2YSgH0p2sqaNN5ZWIHY8+GeuSPh9Xedl7/PI+2YdPABAyWXOOl2kklinE+ fl3eRIyN2D36eyjlhjcATASTCMmpGYeGAZ81dijn8MJuA31rOjW5Ev5LJfwfp6cJ DE5oRjP2KNY= =Vl1i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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